The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-01
News of the Week.

feet below the surface in Atlanta, Ca, by ar
tesian well borers.
Twenty persons were arrested on Tuesday
in gambling house at Long Branch, and the |
proprietors were find $50 each.
A boat, containing three drunken men,
capsized on Owasco Lake, New York, on
Sunday, and two of them were drowned.
justice of the peace of Bowdon, Ca,
has served thirty years and never had a
judgement reversed or sent back for new
trial.
A bottle of purple ink was mistakenly
opened for port wine at Detroit supper, and
fourteen guests filled their mouths with the
liquid in pledging the host.
A cloud burst near Colorado Springs Colo
RADIO, on Saturday night, caused damage to
the amount of about S35, 900. 1t is feared |
several persons were drowned.
People living near the barracks of the Sal
walton Army at Asbury Park have secured
an injunction against the Army because of
the noisy and disorderly character of its
meetings
A labor demonstration at Newark, New
Jersey, on Monday was largely attended. |
More than G000 men walked in parade and
were reviewed by the Mayor and Council
men.
1t is reported from Bisbee, Arizona, that
Captain Lawton's command, guarding the
pass which leads to the reservation, recently |
intercepted a band of returning Apaches and |
killed seven of them.
Charlton still prevails among the stock and
cattle in New Iberia Parish, Louisiana. On
the prairie west of the town of New Iberia
the decomposing carcasses are so numerous
as to vitiate the atmosphere.
The Navy Department has requested the
English Government, through the Secretary
of State, to allow two of the recent graduates
at Annapolis to have the benefit of the two
years advanced course at Greenwich.
Monday was the nineteenth anniversary Of
the completion of the Atlantic cable. Since
that day there has not been one moments in
terruption of communication, some of the |
cables being always in working order.
Eighty-seven horses belonging to the Payne
Avenue Street Railway, in Cleveland, Ohio
were poisoned on Sunday with croton oil.
Three have died, and the rest are in a terrible
condition. 1t is suspected that the outrage
grew out of the recent strike.
bee stung New Lebanon, IN. Y man
on the right temple recently and rendered
him unconscious for several hours. Since |
then his mind has been confused and his
memory defective, and fears that the brain is
permanently affected are entertained.
A blind negro boy, in Laurensville, S. c.,
goes regularly for the mail three quarters of
mile distant, walking trestle bridge on
the way, and is said to be able to gather as
many blackberries for ten cents per gallon as
any of the colored boys Of that vicinity.
The natives of Stonington, Conn, assert
that it has not rained there on the 10th of
August for 101 years. That is the day they
celebrate, and the weather record, they say,
has been accurately kept in the borough ever
since the first anniversary of the battle of
Stonington.
New Jersey has just completed her State
census and boasts 100 900 more inhabitants |
than she had five years ago. In 1880 the |
population was 1,l31, 116. The increase is
mainly in the counties nearest New York and |
Philadelphia, while the agricultural districts
have only held their own.
The Iowa Prohibition law has been in force
over year, and is fairly successful in the |
small places, while in cities there is thought |
to be more drunkenness than under the license |
system. Reports from twenty-five leading
cities and towns show $50 more open drinking
places than there were year ago.
The burglar who robbed the Lee residence
in Detroit, Mich, lately, has written to the
Post of that city Indignantly denying that he
secured small fortune in diamonds, and as
SerIluS CndG tHe ldCIeF were nothing more
than cheap imitation gems, which he is too
proud to wear and too honest to sell.
From the returns already in, it is estimated
that the campaign in Tonquin cost the French
500, 900, 900, while the wear and tear to the
naval force are $6,000,000 more. We have
here round sum presented of S102, 900, 900,
with certain heavy expenses yet to be met,
the amount of which cannot now be deter
mined.
A ditch train on the Richmond and Dan
vile Railroad on Monday ran over COW
near Suwanee, Georgia, and one car was
thrown from the track. In the car were fif
teen negro train hands and six bars of iron.
The car turned on its side and the iron fell
upon the negroes, killing seven and wounding
three more.
John Scholb, New York baker, became
insane Saturday and went through the streets
bemoaning the death of Gen. Grant. He
was arrested, and in court he was told by an
officer that Grant was not dead. At this he
clapped his hands and jumped and laughed
with joy. He was committed to the care of
the commissioners of charities.
Near Red6eld, Arkansas, on Thursday
night OF last week, David Scruggs, colored,
who had been recently released on a writ of
habeas corpus from the jail where he was con-
fined on a charge of assauting his little
daughter, was visited by large crowd of
negroes who cut him so horribly with knives
and razors that he has since died.
Rev. DR.. W. R. Davis, colored, pastor of
the Zion Baptist Church, in Louisville, re-
signed Sunday night by request of his congre-
CATION who complain that he did not preach
loud enough, and did not raise them to that |
pitch of fervor which makes them so happy. |
Dir. Davis is graduate of Harvard, and at
one time was President Of the Colored Ken
lucky State University
The commissioner of agriculture having re-
ceived many complaints that the sorghum seed |
distributed for this years planting failed to
grow, steps were taken to have samples of the |
seed oil hand tested in the propagating gar
dens of the department Mr.. Saunders, the |
Superintendent of the gardens, now reports |
that after several tests of the seed received for
trial as regards its vegetative qualities he
finds that about ten per cent. of it will grow,
and adds: Decidedly it is unfit for distribu-
ton.
1t is said that Washington was the hottest
CITY in the United States during the recent |
heated SPELL The average temperature for
the entire day of Sunday was 80 degrees, and |
there were several deaths from sunstroke. |
There were two curious results of the heat.
The asphalt pavements became so nearly |
melted that sparrows were caught, having |
their feet imbedded in them. The sun set /
fire to matches iii metal cases in u show
window of a tobacconist opposite the Trca
sury, and nearly caused a serious conhIgra
ton.
The Socialists and Anarchists of Chicago
held their annual picnic last Sunday in a
grove near that city. The principal feature
of the occasion was the parade to the grounds
in which about 5000 persons, representing
several different societies, took part Nu-
merous banners and transparencies were car
ricd, one of the former, large and of flaming !
red, being borne by the wives of four of the |
principal local Socialstic agitators, On one
transparency was the Inscription, "We mourn |
not so much General Grant as the little child |
child who was starved to death yesterday"
Boy Preacher Harrison, according to his
own estimate, has converted between forty ann
fifty thousand souls during his career. Evan
gelst Sam Jones says that he has made be- |
tween eight and ten thousand converts during |
the present year. This is a much better /
showing than Harrison 5, considering that the /
latter has been engaged in the work for some
twenty years. Jones AYERS, furthermore, that |
ninety.ive per cent of his converts remain |
true to their professions after his departure.
This remarkable statement is discredited by |
the rival revivalist.
AT What Cheer, Iowa, about 2 o'clock on