The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-11-28
News of the Week.

the Orange King of that place, has sold his
crop on the trees for $4,000
Four criminals-two for larceny and Two
for burglary-were dashed at the whipping
post in New Castle, Del, on Saturday.
Bradish Johnson has an orange grove below
New Orleans with 10000 bearing trees, yield
ing $4,000 barrels of the golden fruit annually.
A shanty at Sabula, near Dubois, Pa, was
burned on Sunday night, and JAS. McGraner
and VIM. Campbell, both drunk, were burned
to death.
The West Shore Railroad was sold at New
burg, N. Y, on Tuesday, to j. Pierpont
Morgan, Chauncey NJ. Depew and Ashbel
Green, for S22, 600, 900.
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars of
Virginia met in Danville Tuesday night. The
number of subordinate Lodges in the state
was reported to be 217.
At Amsterdam, New York, on Saturday
morning, John Hall heated a poker red hot
and deliberately burned holes in his wifes
face. 1t is feared she is fatally injured.
A peddler, named Honfeld, was robbed of
$1,000 in cash and about as much more in
silks and jewelry, by two masked highway
men, near Millersburg, Ohio, Saturday even
ing.
A terrible cyclone swept over the Philip
pine Islands Saturday. Eight thousand
buildings, including numerous churches and
schoolhouses, were destroyed, and % persons
were killed
The Circuit Court at Cincinnati on We'd
nesday directed the issue of certificates of
election to the four Republican candidates for
State Senators from Hamilton county. Judge
Smith dissented.
Henry w. Sage, the founder of the Sage
Female College, in Cornell University, has
given $780, 600 to endow professorship of
ethics and moral philosophy in that UNIVERSE
ty, in memory of his late wife.
Last week diphtheria appeared in the fam
lily of John Gerhardt, consisting of 16 persons,
at Maintop, near Mount Carmel. Penna On
Tuesday the seventh death from the disease
occurred, and four others were at the point of
death.
The whole adult population of the village
of st. Marthe, Quebec, voluntarily assembled
in their parish church on Saturday and pledg
ed themselves to abstain from alcoholic bev
erages for one year. The village contains
population of 1000 souls.
The vote for Attorney General in Virginia
has just been counted by the Board of State
Canvassers, and shows majority of IL, 246
for Ayers, Democrat. The vote for Governor
and Lieutenant Governor will not be can
vassed until the Legislature meets next month.
Near Seattle, Washington Territory, on
Saturday night, John Cannon, Jas. j, Smith
and j. Harry Gaul, miners, were crushed to
death in their cabin. They were sitting around
a stove smoking, when large tree, rotten at
the butt fell crushing the cabin and its occu-
pants.
Benjamin H. Longnecker. Director of the
Poor of Lancaster county, Pa, disappeared
last March after embezzling $4,000 of trust
funds body found in Los Angeles county,
California, recently, has been identified as
that of Longnecker. The cause of his death
is unknown.
John Sharpless, one of the most prominent
Orthodox Friends in Delaware county, Pa,
was murdered on his farm, about two miles
from Chester, on Sunday night. He was in
duced to go to the barn by an unknown col
ored man, who crushed in his skull and robbed
him of his watch.
Fifteen tramps confined in the calaboose
at Denton, Texas. for refusing to work, were
waited upon last Friday night by mob. The
mob overpowered the guards, took out the
tramps and administered thirty lashes,
heavily laid on, to each, telling them to get
out. The tramps have all fed from Denton
Dr. j. A. Milne, leading physician of
Oswego, New York, was Wednesday fined
$3.50, with the alternative of six months i'm
prisonment, for contempt of Court in refusing
to testify in criminal case. DR.. Milne plead
ed as a defence for refusal, that his testi-
mony would involve the disclosure Of profess
sonal secrets.
Mrs. Anna McSweeny keeps a small board
ing house in Jersy City, and among her
boarders was Otto Koblank, young silk
weaver On Thursday night of last week he
went home drunk, abused Mrs. McSweeny,
and finally, selling kettle from the stove,
poured the boiling water over the poor woman.
A physician pronounced her injuries fatal.
Koblank escaped.
The Knights of Labor of Reading, Pa,
l 200 strong, have boycotted Glazer q Frame,
cigar manufacturers, of that city, employing
$50 hands, because they refuse to employ
union hands. Glazer Il Frame publish a
statement that they will not employ union
men, and that before they consent to do so
they will close their factory.
Clement Gransinger, an old resident of
Csss county, Indiana, died on Sunday morn
Z ;, sS.his death bed he confessed that he
ipa1 GAred his daughter, aged 80 years,
about years ago At the time of her death
he reported that she had committed suicide,
and the circumstances under which her body
was found tended to confirm his report.
The inhabitants of Helena. Arkansas were
aroused on Thursday morning of last week by
what they thought was heavy rain. The
air was filed with flying grasshoppers, mill
ions of which were driven against walls and
windows. They were of the Kansas variety.
They fell so thickly that they had to be
shoveled from the sidewalks into the street.
A telegram from Newark, New Jersey,
SAYS that representative of the firm of Mar
shall & Company, extensive manufacturers OF
linen thread in Leeds, England, has been in
Newark several days looking for site to
establish a linen thread factory. He has de-
cided to establish factory near Newark,
and negotiations for the property are about
completed.
Several thousand acres of fine grazing land
in the st. Francis and Cache river bottoms,
Arkansas, have been laid waste within a few
weeks by the burning of underground by
hunters. The farmers have banded together
for self protection, and it is rumored that at
Jonesboro', on Monday night, three hunters
who had been caught in the act of firing I'M
dergrowth were lynched by the farmers.
A story frame rockery on Morris street,
Jersey City, and an adjoining two-story ma
chine shop, tumbled down Wednesday morn
ing while some men, women and children
were tearing out the old timbers for frewood.
Four children, whose ages ranged from to
u wears, were XIX and four persons-a
man. a woman and W. children-were Sc
yereiy injured. The building had been con-
demned and was unoccupied for some time.
At Atlantic City, Va, on Sunday afternoon,
Annie Dixon, aged 16 years, was visiting a
neighbor, accompanied by Thomas Moses, an
intimate friend, 20 years old. Just as they
were leaving Moses picked up gun, and he
and the young girl began to scufie over it.
He threw it over his shoulder and was leaving
the room, when it exploded, the charge TAX
ing effect in Miss Dixon's throat, killing her
instantly.
An old we'll which had been abandoned for
wears. on the farm of Thomas Poole, in Penn
Township, Chester county, Penna., was open
ed recently to furnish water to an engine.
Miss Annie Poole, Frank Townsend, Edward
MacKay and others drank of the water and
became terriblyill. Miss Poole and Townsend
died. but the others are reported better. 1t
is believed that the water was impregnated
with mineral poison.
The National Grange of Patrons of Hus-
bandry, in session at Boston, last week, adopt,
ed a resolution offered by l.. r. Rhone, of
Penna., as follows: "The National Grange,
assembled in annual session, enters its pro-
test against the present policy of the Ameri-
can manufacturers in pursuing free trade
policy in the admission of raw material and
! I'll ,,ro+action on manufactured which