The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-07-25
News of the Week.

lhere were ten deaths from Small pox in
Montreal last week
Eight men have been lost in the wreck of
a lifeboat at Yarmouth, Eng
A fire at Rising Sun, Indiana, last Friday
night, destroyed twelve stores and dwellings.
The grasshoppers are reported to be devas
tating the growing crops in the vicinity of
Fort Buford, Dakota
The trial of Louis Riel, on the charge of
high treason, began at Regina, in the North
west Territory, on Monday
John Roach, the ship builder, of Chester,
Pa, made an assignment last Saturday, Civ
ing preferences to about 1926, 900 of debts.
Ten out Of twenty eight head of cattle be-
longing to kerchoff & Wiesel were killed by
lightning, near Saltwater, Mimi, Sunday.
i Twenty six little white girls have been taken
from Chinese, to whom they had been sold by
parents or midwives, in San Francisco, during
the last year.
The town of Skidmore, Missouri, was burn
ed on Sunday. Loss nearly 100000. The
fire was started by boys playing with matches
in a hay NOV.
Charles Damarin, son and chief deputy of
Postmaster Damarin, of Portsmouth, Ohio,
is reported to have absconded with S2700 of
Government funds.
The marriage of Princess Beatrice, young
est daughter of Queen Victoria, to Prince
| Henry of Battenburg, took place on Thursday
at st. Mildreds Church. Whippingham.
The Marine Hospital Bureau is informed
that yellow fever is epidemic at Bahia, Brazil,
and that cholera has appeared at Puerto
Real, the port of entry of Cadiz, Spain.
Small pox is reported to be epidemic at
Scotland, Dakota. Twenty-Five cases were
reported among the Russians there ON Sun
day, and several deaths have occurred within
few days.
! By the premature explosion of blast on
the South Pennsylvania Railroad, near Fort
Littleton, Fulton county, Penna., on Monday
night three men were killed and two injured,
perhaps fatally.
A Washington telegram says that Deputy
! Postmaster in town in Maine is now in Jail
for defrauding the government to the extent
of S1428 in two years by making false returns
of the number of stamps cancelled.
A veterinary surgeon from the Agricultural
Department has just examined number of
diseased COWS in a heard at Middletown, Vir-
| ginia, and pronounced the disease pleuropneu-
monia. The cattle are quarantined.
The Emigration Commissioners at New
| York on last Friday returned as paupers five
families, comprising eighteen persons, from
! Germany, Russia, Prussia and Austria.
| Neither family had over four dollars in
money.
About GO men were overcome by foul air
and smoke from a blast in the South Pennsyl
vania Railroad tunnel at RoXbury last Friday
evening Two were dead when taken out of
the tunnel, and others were not expected to
/ recover.
The postofice at East Salem, Kansas, was
/ burned on Sunday night with all its contents.
! fbe, hav tala
/ ed that there were suspicious circumstances
! connected with the fire, and an investigation
will be made.
The cost of maintaining the Government
/ Asylum for the insane last year was $l20, 800.
/ Under the new contracts just made by the
/ Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year
beginning July l, 1885, the supplies will cost
! 500, 245, showing net saving of 81 ,554.
/ 1t is estimated that $50 wine and beer sa-
! looms have been closed in ST. Louis, their
! proprietors going out of business, since July
| LIST, under the High License law. 1t is be-
| lieved that about 400, or one-fourth of all the
saloons in the city, will be shut up during
! this month
! While an old man named FOLLY was asleep
4 on the steps of his house in West Twenty
! seventh street, New York, early Sunday morn
/ ing, some villain or villains poured coal oil
/ on his clothes and set it on fire. His lower
| limbs were badly burned and he was taken to
| the hospital.
| William Vessel a saloon-keeper of Yoangs-
town, Ohio, was badly whipped last Sunday
4 night, in a fight with his wife. For revenge,
! he united bulldog on Monday night and set
/ it at his wife. The dog tore the flesh from
the woman's limbs, inficting injuries which
may prove fatal Vessel is in Jail
/ The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports
| that the number of immigrants who arrived
in the United States during the fiscal year
which ended June 80, 1885, was 3S7 ,821 be-
! ing I22,013 less than during the preceding
4 fiscal year or 401, III less than during the
year ending June 80, 1882, the year of the
greatest immigration.
/ At Reading, Penna., ON Saturday morning
/ Henry HELEN, a brckyard laborer, while
digging away earth at the foot of an embank
ment ten feet high, was thrown violently back
ward by a slide of many tons of earth over his
body. His head struck stone, which frac-
tured his skull, death resulting Immediately
/ He leaves widow and four children.
Intelligence has been received from West
Africa that the King of Dahomey, with many
( followers, on May 10 made a raid on the
villages under French protection near Porto
Novo His troops INDUCED in wholesale
massacres of the inhabitants and burned all
their dwellings, One thousand youths and
women we're captured and carried back into
! Dahomey to be sacrificed at the cannibalisJic
feasts.
| About eleven o clock on Thursday night of
/ lest week, the house of Josiah NJ. Evans,
/ small two story log hut, three miles from Gra-
| hamton, Clarified county, Penna., was de-
stroyed by fire, and six of his children, rang
I ing in age from six to fifteen years, were
burned to death. The father insists that the
/ fire was the work of lncendiary, and In
this opinion others share.
/ The law officer of the Post Office Depart
+! ment has given an opinion to the effect that a
postmaster who uses or converts to his own
use the postal funds in his hands, although
not required to deposit them until the end Of
i the current n4a5sth quarter, is guilty of en-
/ bezzlement. Any postmaster who uses postal
1 funds intending to make them good when the
! time for depositing arrives is liable to prose-
cution and punishment.
( Near Douglas, Kansas, on Sunday morn
! ing, Arson Carman and wife, and Mrs. Jay
/ Carman their sons wife, drove into Walnut
/ creek, which had risen during the night from
recent rains, and were swept down and out
/ of sight of second wagon which came down
to ford few minutes later. In the second
wagon were Mr. and Mrs. Koates, and Mr..
and Mrs. Jay Carman. They drove into the
! stream and were swept down also. Arson
/ Carman was the only one rescued.
Rev. Dr. S. Irenas Prime, an eminent
! PRESBYTERIAN divine and for forty-ive years
editor of the New York Observer, died at
7 Manchester, Vermont, last Saturday, aged
10 years. He was a native of Saratoga coun-
ty, New York and graduated from Williams
College in 1929, and Immediately after stud
led theology, following the footsteps of his
father, who was a clergyman. Failing health
/ soon required him to relnquish preaching,
and he devoted himself to church work in
other channels.
A private letter from Kinney county, Texas,
saws that hostile bands of Indians, taking ad
vantage of the withdrawal of the cavalry from
that district, are at large on the frontier.
The writer states that two Mexicans at the
mouth of the Pinto Creek, eight at Las Vegas,
and about twenty at other points have been
killed in the Trans, Rio Grande, near the bor-
der, by Indians, and that band of fifteen
raiding warriors have been in Kinney, near
Manning Brothers ranch. So far as learned
no loss OF life has attended the Indian raid in
Texas.
The american Rurdl Home, of Rochester,
publishes special crop reports from all the
/ winterand spring wheat growing States. These
/ ra,,orts say that in the Northwest the winter