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
S11 900 by premiums alone.
Mrs. Jane Wilson, who was born at Gull
pepper Court House, Va, 107 years ago, re-
sides in St. Louis, NO., 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 q refneries of
beet-root sugar were started in Thuringa,
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
eago. 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
illCCu az thC PiCoSH' 'i'N'
The military and fremen of Winchester,
Va, have decided to celebrate the Fourth of
July in manner equaling, if not surprising,
any previous occasion of the kind.
The teachers in the public schools of Phila-
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 lis 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 I, into the Passaie. river
and drowned him. Baum had previously tried
to drown several other boys. f =
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
was 200 pounds, and he had been on exhibit
ton for several years. He made tour
title of ''The Baby Giant" ..r
James B. johnson, the Christian preacher,
of St. Joseph, Mo-, 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
& 70 of Thirtaanth oyenua and Fourteenth
street, in New York, were burned on Satur-
day night The loss ofthe Candle Company
is estimated at $500, 900: that of Popham & &c.
at $4,000.
The costly chalice which was sent by the
Pope to Cardinal McClosky in honor of the
fifthieth anniversary of the latter's ordination
to the priesthood reached His Eminence Mon
day morning. 1t is probably the most superb
work of the kind ever seen IN this country.
Sophia Bently Hall, the Oldest resident Of
New London, Connecticut, died there on Sat
urday at the alleged age of 102 years. She
was born in Baltimore, but removed to New
London 85 years ago. The telegram announc-
ing her death says that los persons are now
living here lin New London) over so years
old.
There are $50 manufacturing establishments
in Atlanta, Ca, ranging from watch to match
factories, employing over 5000 hands and
paying about S2,500,00 annually in wages.
The principal manufactures are in cotton,
iron and wood. There are three cotton man.
ufactories and seven manufactures of agricul-
tural implements.
Mrs. Sarah Wilkes Banta died on Monday
night at l ,003 Greene avenue, Brooklyn, in
her 102d year. She had been widow sixty
years. Four of her brothers lived to be over
90. Mrs. Banta retained her faculties almost
to the last. She leaves twenty-four grand
children, twenty five great grandchildren, and
four great-great- grandchildren.
At Augusta, Ga, Saturday, r. D. Crocker,
bookkeeper of the Commercial Bank. while
making exchanges with the National Bank at
the counter of the latter, had $27 900 stolen
from a satchel at his side. Two men named
Simmons and Watkins were arrested at Allen
dale. All but $50 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,
o bullet crashed through a window of the EX
ecutive mansion. A man at work in the vi
cinity said the shot was fired by boy who
was engaged in pigeon shooting. As "a pre-
cisely 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 panic. A second but lighter
shock followed at 5.1S p. NJ, and more are
expected.
At the Essex Institute in Salem, Massa.
chusetts, on Monday night, public exhibit
ton was given of a new bleaching process
by paraffine soap. Unrotted flax, just rs cut
from the field and dried was rendered snow
white in forty minutes. Successful test upon
Russian hemp fax in fibre and Russian and
Irish fax in fibre were also made. There is
no loss in weight.
Charles Houlden, farmer, living near
Petersburg, Illinois, quarrelled with his wife
on Saturday night, knocked her down with
an axe, cut her throat from ear to ear, and
inflicted numerous stab wounds in her breast
His 12-year-old son interfering, was severely
cut in the head. Houlden then cut his own
throat, but did not make a mortal wound.
He is now in Jail.
Last week Sedgwick county, Kansas, sent
40 cars loaded with corn to the destitute in the
Ohio Valley. In 1874, during the grashopper
plague, the citizens Of the Ohio valley contrib
uted largely to the Kansas people, and they
now return it with interest. The cars were
handsomely decorated and were in charge
of several prominent citizens. The several
RAILROADS transported the cars free.
4 dispatch from Chamhershprg, Pa, March
26, says. Miss Ada Kurtz, daughter of the
county sheriff, was yesterday sworn into Office
as deputy sheriff. She at once went to Green
castle and served several writs. To-day she
escorted a handcuffed prisoner to the Eastern
penitentiary. She is very popular, and the
appointment is generally approved. She has
been clerk in her fathers office for some
time. Her age is % years. She is probably
the only female deputy sheriff in the state.