The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-08
News of the Week.


The public debt statement for July shows a
reduction of IS, 662, 100.
The cholera has made its appearance in
France, at Paris and Marseilles.
A large and apparently inexhaustible bed
of bituminous coal of fine quality has been
discovered within three miles of Lampasas,
Texas.
A grand procession in honor of the memory
of General Grant will take place in St. Louis
to-day. 1t is expected that 10000 men will
be in line.
Stanley Huntley, the newspaper writer and
author of the ''Spoopendyke Papers" died IN
New York city Thursday night of last week,
aged about forty years.
Monday was the hottest day ever expert
enced in the San Joaquin Valley, California,
the thermometer at MERGED registering ia
degrees in the shade.
The French Canadians in Ottawa are active
in obtaining signatures to petitions to the
Governor General, asking for Communication
of the sentence of Riel.
The British bark John Gibson, from Glen
fuegos, arrived ut the Delaware Breakwater
on Monday night, with yellow fever on board.
Her captain died at sea and one man was sick.
At Raymond, Mississippi, on Monday, w.
r. Farr, white, convicted of marrying Sarah
Williams, colored, was sentenced to the pen
itentiary for nine years. The woman was
also convicted and sentenced to the penlten-
tiary for three years.
A heavy storm prevailed on Saturday after
noon in the northern part of Lancaster county,
Pa. The tobacco was greatly damaged by
hail, many of the stones being as large as
hickory nuts. The barn of Jonathan S.
Stewart, at Landisville, was destroyed by
lightning.
An agricultural station has been establish
ed at Aurora, Illinois, in connection with the
chronological Division of the Department OF
Agriculture 1t has been placed in charge OF
Nelson W. McLane, who has been specially
instructed to pay attention to bees, and honey
producing plants.
Charles Melville, notorious convict, died
in the penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, on
Sunday. He was under sentence of seven
years for bigamy. His father was an English
man, his mother a Russian countess, and he
claimed to be Russian count. 1t is said that
he had married fifteen women.
While artillery from Fort Warren were
firing minute guns at Mt. MeGregor on Tues
day morning, Private Timothy Oldham ram
ming charge, was thrown violently to the
ground by premature explosion. The left
side of his face was torn open and the right
eve destroyed. He has since died
1t was arranged at Tuesday Cabinet meet
ing that the President and all the Cabinet
officers should leave Washington on Friday
afternoon for New York to attend the funeral
of General Grant. Immediately after the
funeral the President will go to Albany, and
on Monday next, accompanied by Colonel
Lamont, he will start for the the Adirondacks.
At Georgetown, Colorado, last Friday, Will
liam Neg, employed at the Telephone mine,
complained of being i'll. He went to his
cabin, laid down on the floor, placed a stick
of giant powder, with cap and fuse attached,
under his head, and while in this position
lighted the fuse. His head was blown entire
" from his body.
The Indian tribes on the Clearwater river,
in Idaho, are quarrelling over some property
claimed by each tribe. The hostiles sent
north from the Indian Territory killed nine
Indians last Friday, and the relatives of the
murdered men are seeking to avenge theiI
death. There is much uneasiness among the
whites.
The caterpillar has appeared in the cotton
fields Of Sumpter, Orangeburg, Berkeley and
Richland counties, South Carolina. The boil
worm has appeared in Anderson county.
Reports from all sections of the State, how
ever, indicate the largest yield of ail the
crops for years, and unless cotton shall bc
badly damaged by worms, that crop also will
be large.
At Cheltenham Beach, near Chicago, on
Saturday night, W.. L. Smith and A. Il. Tai.
bot ascended in two balloons for race il
mid air. When at height of about 1900 feet
the balloons collapsed. Talbot went down
with his wreck comparatively uniBiqred, but
Smith fell the whole distance, striking some
telegraph wires before reaching earth He
was fatally injured,
An incoming passenger train at Leadville
Colorado, last Friday evening, exploded q
dynamite cartridge when about two miles
from the city. The engine and tender were
badly wrecked and one length of track was
torn up, but none of the passengers were in
tired The explosion was distinctly heard q
distance of ten miles. 1t is believed that the
outrage was the work of strikers.
During violent storm at Fargo, Dakota
on Thursday of last week an electric tower
100 feet high, all iron, was blown down and
twisted out of shape. Many tin roofs and
trees in the city were carried away, and great
damage was done in the country east neal
| Glvndon. A barn at Carlinville was de
stroyed, with six cows, and several thousand
acres Of wheat were damaged 20 to 40 per
cent.
A masked burglar went to tbe house of W.
R. MASam, in st. Paul, on Monday morn
| ing. seized Merriam S motherin-law violently
bv the wrist, fred pistol to intimidate her,
met Merriam in the hall and cornered him
with a pistol and then made him point ou
valuables The thief took diamond studs
shirt buttons and a gold watch, all valued al
5000, and then eoolly walked out of the from
] door.