The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-06-27

The wire worm is reported to be damaging
the growing corn in portions of Illinois.
A telegram from Lima reports the loss of
the Italian steamer Italia, with SO lives.
There is trouble in the French government
and it is likely that the ministry will resign.
Hog cholera is causing heavy losses to the
farmers in the country around Shelbyviile,
Illinois.
In the cholera infected districts of Spain
there were 1892 cases on Thursday, and there
have been 5l3 deaths.
S. L. Phelps, ex-U. S. Minister to Peru,
died on Wednesday morning at Lima. He
was about 81 years of age
The bark Not has arrived in Delaware Bay
having lost her captain and one man from
fever. Two other men are sick.
A woman in New Brunswick N. j., the
mother of two sets of twins, on Friday last
gave birth to triplets. Police Police
The West Virginia prohiDitionists in con-
vention at Wheeling have adopted a major
ity report favoring the organization of q
third party on a political basis,
Estimates based on reports from 81 coun.
ties in Kansas, where the wheat harvest is in
progress, indicate that the yield is Is per cent
greater than the June estimate of the State
Board of Agriculture.
Five generations of one family, from pa
triarch 100 years old down to the great great
granddaughter, aged years, were recently
represented in a photograph taken by an
indianapolis photographer.
A disease resembling CHAMBERS is epidemic
among the horses and other animals at Knox
Vile. a suburb of Pittsburg, Pa. Twelve
horses have died since Saturday, and num-
Der of cats and dogs are reported sick.
Sixty thousand quarts of strawberries were
received on Tuesday in Albany, New York,
from within a radius Of ten miles, and the
sales were at from 3 to cents quart. The
receipts were the largest ever known at Al
bany in one day.
A chariyari party, who were "belling q
newly married couple near Paw Paw, ILL.,,
Tuesday night, were fred upon by Arthur
Nettet0n, brother of the bride, and two OF
the roystorers, Louis White and Wm Hack
man, were fatally wounded.
The bruised pulp of eucalyptus leaves,
which ne had been in the habit OF applying
TO his very bald head for the cure of head
ache. has brought out a new and abundant
crop of hair on the head of California ply
sician SO he says the Indiana Medical journal.
The Trustees of Delaware College, at Will
mington, decided on Wednesday to do away
with the co.education of the sexes at that in
stitution. The resignation of President Pnr-
nell. who introduced coeducation into the
college about thirteen years ago, was &C
eepted,
During circus performance at Lapeer,
Michigan, on Tuesday, large elephant be-
came enraged, tone up seats and smashed
things generally. After cleaning out the tent
he took to a neighboring swamp. In the
panic number of people had their limbs
broken.
Rev. DR.. Samuel David Ferguson, colored,
was consecrated Missionary Bishop of Cape
P,lmas, Africa, in New York on Wednesday
morning. Bishop Lee, OF Delaware W was the
consecrator, his assistants being Bishops
Stevens, of Pennsylvania, and Littlejohn, of
Long Island. Bishop Ferguson is the first
coloTed member of the American House of
Bishops He is native of South Carolina,
43 years of age.