The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-03-29
News of the Week.

1000 dozen eggs per week to Northern mar
kets.
Real estate has advanced SO and wild lands
100 per cent. during the past six months in
Manatee county, Fla.
Mapleson netted by the sale of seats for the
extra opera week in San Francisco over
Sl1 900 by premiums alone.
Mrs. Jane Wilson, who was born at Cal
pepper Court House, Va, l07 years ago, re-
sides in St. Louis, Mo-, hale and hearty.
Epizootic prevails at Dayton, Ohio, to a
remarkable extent among the horses, and is
reported as being worse than ever before.
Last Autumn no fewer than 81 refneries of
beet-root sugar were started in Thuringia,
Germany, at the present time 81 others are in
course Of erection.
The Calling Gun Company at Hartford,
Connecticut, has received an order for ten
more guns for the Chinese Government to be
delivered in sixty days.
The first through train of cars with passen-
gers left the City of Mexico Saturday for Chi
cago. The party consists of fifty, both Next
cans and Americans.
The number Of cotton mills in the Southern
States has increased from one hundred and
eighty, four years ago, to three hundred and
fifteen at the present time.
The military and fremen of Winchester,
Va, have decided to celebrate the Fourth of
July in a manner equaling, if not surprising,
any previous occasion of the kind.
The teachers in the public schools ofPhila-
delphia, have subscribed 500 for the relief of
the teachers in the public schools who were
subjected to losses by the recent floods in the
Ohio Valley.
Ed. Dowse, colored, of Mclean, Ca, whose
five children were recently found murdered,
has been arrested for the crime. 1t is thought
he killed them to save himself the trouble of
supporting them.
AtPaterson, New Jersey, on Saturday even
ing, Louis Baum, years old, pushed George
Steinhausser, aged Z, into the Passaie river
and drowned him. Baum had previously tried
to drown several other boys. z
Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, on Mon
day telegraphed to James Low, of Ithaca,
New York, that there is not a case of foot
and mouth disease in Missouri Experts pro-
nounce the ailing cattle as suffering from
frozen feet.
Waner Williams died at Anita, Ia, on Sun
day. Though only years of age, his weight
ton for several years. He made a tour
through the western States last year under the
title of ''The Baby Giant
James B. johnson, the Christian preacher,
of ST. Joseph, No., who was arrested for steal
ing large quantities of drugs from the whole
sale house of Smith, Van Malta & Co., at st.
Joseph, committed suicide at Denver Satur-
day, while en- route to Salt Lake City.
The works of the Electric Candle Company
and the lard refinery of William H. Popham
& Co., at Thirteenth avenue and Fourteenth
street, IN new l9rk, were purhe stl On m oatur-
aay nlg me eo ,os 600 oi 'ne oaIoie CoiP1ny
Is eseinl nno a' F''o''ooo 'ii"' Vi oPhan 0c
1'o'o00
The costly chaIice Whlch was sent by me
rope 10 Oaralhai McClosky IN nohoT oi the
Iite'n anniversary VI .,iG II, iatter
TO the prlesthooa reached ms Emlhehce MON
aay morning; ~ Is prooaoiy tne most superb
WORK OIL the KIM ever seen III this country
Sophia Bently Hall, the oldest resident OF
New Lonuoh' HonhGct'cu', uIe o., 'nere On S S
uiual at !no aiieou "sI VI W. 9eaio 2ne
was 1olH ~ oa'si.i rp LUZ .I Gu " .'e"
i1o"uo" % "so, 100 - s ati
IN ing her ueaI. says 'Ia' ioo Persons or a6e NOW
nVlng mere TN new LohuohJ over on years
ola.
There are 400 manufacturing establishments
IN Atlanta, "a, ranging from watch to match
ihctories elnp ~; a5 ooo o,ooU n.lius anu
paying apouI 9-,ooo, e. "nhu"ny III WAGES
Inc pr,hciPai iii ,a, are III cottoh,
IRON ana wooa. Ihere are three COTTON man
ufactoreS ana seven manufactures OF agricui-
lural implements.
Mrs. Sarah Wilkes Banta died on Monday
night at ,003 Greene avenue, brooklyn, in
her 1O2d year. She had been widow sixty
years -Four OF her brothers lived to be over
to the last. She leaves twenty-tour grand
children, twenty-five great. grandchildren, and
four great-great- grandchildren.
AT Augusta, Ga, Saturday, K. d. Crocker,
bookkeeper of the Commercial Bank. while
making exchanges with the National Bank at
the counter of the latter, had 81, 900 stolen
from a satchel at his side Two men named
Simmons and Watkins were arrested at Allen
dale All but S6o OF the stolen money was
found In an clubhouse at Augusta, Ga.
The discovery that negro hanged four
years ago in Georgia for assaulting white
woman was innocent has just been made. He
was convicted upon circumstantial evidence
only, and died protesting his innocence. The
most notable part OF the story is that the real
culprit has been discovered, and the inhabi
tants, including the negroes, threaten to lynch
him.
While Governor Hamilton, of Illinois, was
in his office at Springfield, Monday afternoon.
bullet crashed through a window of the Ex-
ecutive mansion A man at work in the vi,
cinity said the shot was fred by boy who
was engaged in pigeon shooting As pre-
csely similar occurrence took place short
time ago, there are suspicious of an assassina-
ton plot
The heaviest earthquake shock felt at San
Francisco since 1868 occurred there Tuesday
afternoon, at A minutes past O. clock. The
shock lasted Is seconds, and several build
ings on made ground, near the water front,
were badly damaged. People rushed from
their houses in a panic. a second but lighter
shock followed at SIS p. NJ, and more are
expected.
At the Essay Institute in Salem. Massa.
cbusetts. ON Monday night. n nubIic exbibi.
tion was giyen ofa new bleaching process
bv paraffine soap. Unrotted fax. lust ms cut
fyoin tLe Geld and dr;ad wos endowed snow
white in forty Minutes successful test mon
rhAt. az 'SANJ O"NNS 'fO,