The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-04-19
News of the Week.

last year.
Ten dollar Confederate notes are circulat-
ing in Toronto, and several storekeepers have
taken them unawares.
Humphrey Bunch was shot dead by his
nephew, Jesse Glover, in a quarrel near Car
rollton, Missouri, on Sunday.
The bill passed by the Ohio Legislature re-
pealing the local option feature of the Scott
Liquor Act has become law
Ex-Governor Hendricks arrived in New
York on Saturday by the steamer Vera,
from Hamburg. He called on Mr.. Tilden
next day.
A rich vein of salt water was struck on
Saturday morning on farm near Syracuse,
New York. The new well is 141O feet
Deep
Fifteen hundred miners of the Westmore-
land and Pennsylvania Gas Coal Companies,
at Irwin's Station, Penna., are out on
strike.
The town of Black Hawk, in Mississippi.
was destroyed by tornado on Monday after
noon, and number of persons were severely
injured.
Fourteen prisoners escaped from the Jail at
Des MONIES, Iowa, Friday night of last week.
Assisted by outside parties, they broke hole
through a brick wall.
A telegram from New Haven saws that
Connecticut is being flooded with pauper
immigrants, forced out of Castle Garden by
the agents of steamship lines.
The steamer Vera Tuesday took 81 ,2OO,-
600 in gold to Europe. The specie engage
ments for Wednesday amounted on Tuesday
afternoon to $2,O0O,0OO
An Indian named Grand Louis has been
tried, convicted and hanged by the Indians
of the Colville Agency in Washington Terri
tory, for murder and other crimes.
The yield of wheat in the Sacramento and
joaquin valleys, California, promises to be
60 per cent. greater than last year if the grain
escapes the hot winds of May and June.
Rev. Joseph McCool, one of the oldest
Presbyterians divines in Pennsylvania, died
in Pottsville Wednesday aged so years. His
ministry extended over period of 60 years.
Our exports of beef and pork products for
the five months which ended March 31st,
were valued at S4S, 04S, 300, against S39, 421,-
600 during the corresponding period of last
year.
A freight train on the Western and Allan
tic Railroad ran into washout near Acworth
| Georgia, Tuesday morning. Fourteen cars
were wrecked, and the engineer and fireman
were killed.
Our exports of dairy products for the eleven
in value to S12, $685. 72, against S15, 2O4, O43
during the corresponding period of the pre-
ceding year.
! A tornado passed over Harris county,
Georgia, on Monday night, demolishing
number of buildings at Chipley and its vicinity
and killing five persons. Many others were
injured, several fatally.
A meeting of representatives of various
Boards of Trade of the country was held in
| Washington Tuesday night, at which resolu-
tons were adopted asking discontinuance,
for two years at least, on the coinage of the
standard dollar.
| Sugar is lower now than it has been for n
number of years. The decline has been
caused by the large production of beet sugar
in Continental Europe, thus decreasing the
! demand from the West Indies, and other
countries.
/ John Coye, the murderer of Emily Myers,
in York county, p, has written letter to
| Governor Pattison pleading his own case and
averring that he is insane. Unless a respite
is granted he is to be hung ON April %, at
Gettysburg.
Tornadoes on Monday visited the towns
and neighborhoods of West Point, Beaure-
gard. Grenada and Nicksburg in Mississippi,
and Shreveport in Louisiana, dwelling trees
and fences and unroofng and otherwise dam
aging buildings.
Major Moore, of the salvation Army, was
arrested Tuesdayin Brooklyn, n. Y, charged
with stealing $500 of the funds of the organi-
cation to which he belongs. He was taken to
New Jersey upon requisition from the Gov
ernor of that State.
A telegram from Key West says that boats
from the Flagship Tennessee are patrolling
around the island and the Light house
steamer Laurel is cruising about the entrance
of the. harbor to Intercept any contemplated
expedition to Cuba.
Letters to the Wilmington Erery Ecening
from prominent peach growers all over the
Peninsula agree as to the promising condi-
ton of the peach trees. The buds, however.
will be exposed to danger from freezing for
the next two weeks.
Henry Kilburn. white, and Benjamin Strong
colored, were taken from the jail in jackson,
Kentucky, last Wednesday night, and lynched
by fifty masked men. kiburn had committed
eight murders, and Strong was charged with
completely i'll one of them.
The exodus from Canada to the United
States continues, the emigration tending
chiefly to New England. Rev. Father Malo
is to leave Montreal to-day with large party
for the Turtle Mountains, in Dakota, where Il
French Canadian settlement has been formed.
Our total exports of domestic breadstuffs
during March amounted in value to $40, 49,
4G6, against S1T, S41 1872 in March. 1888 ; and
for the nine months which ended on March
| 3lst last they amounted to S120, 79S. $40,
against SlG7 ,273, OPS during the corresponding
period of the previous year.
One of the most destructive forest fires
ever known in North Carolina has for three
days been devastating the pine woods along
the southern border of that State. The fire
extends through six or seven counties, and
has destroyed number ofdwellings, includ-
ing several in the town of Marley.
In Philadelphia, Pa, during Saturday and
Sunday Easter day, 349 arrests were made by
the police for drunkenness and breach of the
peace. There were II lumber of serious
atfrays in which knives and pistols were used
Twenty-nine persons were committed to the
House of Correction.
The steamer Reliance, of the Brazil Steam=
ship Line, has been totally lost off bahia,
with her cargo. Her passengers, crew and
mails were saved. She was schooner rugged
screw steamer of 2604 tons burthen, and was
valued at S55O,0OO Her cargo is known to
have included 1000 bags of coffee and 1000
hides.
A negro named Gibbsi murdered the wife
of l.. p. Moore in Burleson county, Texas,
itsI CdluTudg, DccduSe SHe WOulu not allow
him to sit at the supper table with the family
The murderer was captured by mob of
white and black citizens on Sunday afternoon
taken back to Moores place, chained 10 a
stake and burned to death.
The Wilkesbarre Ne,Usdealer says, edito-
rally: The wholesale shipping of Hungar-
ians to the coal regions, the sinking of new
shafts and slopes, and the stop work when
We. please policy ofthe contemporaries, if COR
tinued much longer, will result in open rebel
lion by the miners ere the summer of 1884 is
ended. They can't stand it, they won't
stand it.
An assault made with sticks and stones on
the congregation of an Episcopal church at
GarhoRear, Newfoundland, on Sunday even
ing, gave rise 10 riot on Monday night, in
which shots were exchanged between the
rioters. No one was MORALLY wounded. The
Orangemen, armed, paraded through the
streets of Carbonear during Monday night.