The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-19
News of the Week.

1 Burglars secured SIC, 900 worth of diamonds
on Wednesday night from Goldsmith & Co.,
in New York.
The United States Senate has passed bill
appropriating $1,000,O00 for improving the
Mississippi river.
The house of E. N. Miller, near Norwood,
Ga, was burned on Wednesday. Miller's
wife tainted from fright and died.
Bertha Clear, of Philadelphia, Pa, who
married 'the exhibiting skeleton recently,
has become insane and returned home.
The Constitutional Convention of Montana
mot on Monday in Helena. The delegation
consists of 26 Democrats and Is Republicans.
Bishop Kavanaugh, now 80 years old, is
accounted one of the finest pulpit orators of
the Methodist Episcopal Church in Missis-
sippi.
The total number ofimmigrants who arrived
at the various customs districts of the United
States during 1883 was $50, 1856, as compared
with 712, 544 in 1882.
The Presbytery of the Catholic Church at
Bayou du Large, Terre Bonnie parish, La,
was burned on Sunday morning. Rev. Father
Coustarot persisted in the flames.
Mrs Valera Stone died at Maiden, Mass,
Tuesday, from the effects of a fall. During
the past few years Mrs. Stone gave to colleges
and schools for girls over 100000.
The United States Senate, by some recent
ly published figures, got through with POI 900
pounds Office in July and August, 1882-equiv-
alent to 5000 pounds for each Senator.
The slater Day Saints still have congrega
tons in Floyd, Davies and Kosciusko coun-
ties, Indiana, with an aggregate membership
/ of 431. The number of members appear to
remain nearly stationary.
At meeting of the Kentucky Whisky Pool
4 Association, held last week in Louisville, it
was ordered that the capacity for production
this year be reduced to 66S per cent, the
average production of the last two years.
At convention sugar planters held Tues
i day in New Orleans, resolutions were adopted
4 protesting against any further reduction in the
| tariff on sugar, and against the Hawaiian and
proposed Mexican Reciprocity Treaties.
The Bank Commissioners of Massachu-
sets say in their annual report that the de-
posts in savings banks in that State are
$252, so, 593, an increase of ST., 296, 230 over
last year, and that there is an increase of 49,
1872 depositors.
The widow of the late Gen. VIM. N. PEN
dleton died suddenly at Lexington, Va, on
Monday night, in the seventy-seventh year of
her age. 1t is a coincidence that Gen. PEN
dleton died suddenly just a year ago to the
day.
Nisbit Co., cotton merchants of Savan-
nah, Georgia, have failed. The liabilities
will probably exceed 500, 600; assets, nomi-
nal. The advance in cotton was the cause of
the failure. The principal creditors are in
Europe.
Near Salt Lake, Thursday morning, Daniel
Morris, aged 81 years, Mormon with three
wives, after reading the Governors message,
went to the shed of an adjoining house and
hanged himself. The Governor severity COM
mented upon polygamy.
Thirty seven flat boats, containing 5000
bushels of coal, were swept from their moor
ings at Pittsburg on Sunday morning by the
ice, and carried down the Ohio river. Nine
teen were recovered in the afternoon, one
was sunk, and the remainder were not heard
Of
Robert Harris, e-president of the Erie
Railroad, was on Thursday last elected Presi-
dent of the Northern Pacific Railroad to sue
coed Mr.. Willard Mr. Harris has accepted
the position. He was formerly connected
with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad.
Advices from Panama to the 9TH instant
report continuous arrivals of men to work for
the Canal Company and contractors. The
number at work on that date in different capac-
tiles exceeded $4,000. The dry season hav-
ing set in, it was hoped much progress would
be made with the work.
D. P. Hill, a merchant at Glen Gardener,
near Highbridge, n. j. was called to his store
at O'Clock Wednesday morning, and then
shot, his friends say, by three masked men.
Two balls lodged in his head, and he is in
dying condition. No property was disturbed.
1t is the prevailing opinion that he shot him
self
The body of the missing Charles belmont
CO, the New York restaurateur, was found
Monday morning in ravine in the woods ON
Orange Mountain, New Jersey. There were
no marks of violence on it, and nothing was
missing, He had evidently persisted from ex,
posure, and had been dead for several days.
At St. Johns, N. B., on Tuesday night the
mercury was lower than it had been for years.
On Wednesday Andover, Victoria county,
reported 50 degrees below zero at &. 80 A. NJ.
and Woodstock reported 20 degrees below.
At st. John II degrees below was recorded.
At Cornwall, Ont. the thermometer registered
81 degrees below.
A child was born in Bolton, Tolland county,
Connecticut on Jan. 4, having two extra toes.
The mother, Mrs. Phoebe Lewis, has had five
fingers and one extra toe; the fourth, two extra
fingers; the fifth, two extra fingers and two
extra toes. The mother has two extra fingers
and the usual number of toes.
The London Truth says: More than two
hundred disappointed emigrants arrived in the
Clyde last week from New York on their way
back to their original homes in Germany and
Austria. Trade is dull in America, that no
work is to be had and they say that even when
employed it cost them every cent they could
earn to pay for board and lodging at the low
est rates.
There is split in the congregation of the
Madison Avenue Congregatonalist Church,
New York, of which Rev. DR.. j. P. Newman
is pastor. At a church meeting Wednesday
evening DIR. Ranney, senior deacon, severely
criticized DIR. Newman's passionate, and con-
cluded by Offering resolution disseminating
his services as pastor. This aroused DIR. New
man, who made bitter reply, in which he
characterized Dr. Ranney as liar.
Judge McCarter, at Newark, n. j., on
Thursday sentenced ex-Speaker of the As
sembly John Egan to Imprisonment at hard
labor for one month in the penitentiary and
$500 fine for the attempt to bride Assembly
man Armitage last winter. The court took
into consideration the plea of guilty, the pris-
oner's health and the petition for mercy; also
the fact that by the statute he is forever dis
qualified from holding any Office of trust or
profit under the state.
The 50th anniversary of Cardinal McClos
keys ordination to the priesthood was cele-
brated on Saturday in New York. A Solemn
Pontifcal Mass was celebrated in the Cathe
dral, Bishop Loughlin, of brooklyn, officiating
! There were present Archbishop Corligan and
nine Bishops, nearly three hundred of the
clergy, secular and regular, and a congrega-
ton which filled every seat and packed all
the aisles in the vast building.
In Alexandria, Kentucky, on Sunday, a
girl named Weaver, affianced to Edward Beier,
j went to church with young man named
1 Biehl. This so enraged Beier that he went to
y the young woman's house and demanded
back his presents. She refused to give them
up, whereupon he pointed n pistol at her
head and snapped it twice, but it did not go
off. He was then put ont of the house, and,
nnine arnnnd to the hack door shot himself