The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-05-16
News of the Week.

A binding snow fell last Friday IN the pen
insula of Michigan.
The seventeen year locusts have made their
appearance in York county, Pa.
Jacob Martin, of New Oxford, Pa, died
Sunday night, aged about "a years.
The British man Of war Constance, from
Callao, arrived at San Francisco on Monday.
Swarms of grasshoppers have appeared in
Pamela county, Texas, destroying the corn
and other grain.
The total value of our exports of domestic
breadstuffs during the month of April was
$l4, O7S, 251, against $l2, 251, l78 during April,
1884.
A negro named Jordan, who attempted to
feloniously assault white woman, was lynch
ed by mob near Tuscumbia, Alabama, last
Friday night.
Theodore Smith, of Pleasant Valley, Pa,
was found dead in bed on Monday evening.
He drank three quarts of whisky within few
hours before his death.
Rev. DIR. G. H. w. Petrie, for nearly thirty
years Pastor of the Presbyterian church in
Montgomery, Alabama, died on Friday of last
week, aged seventy three years
While Henry Stevens and his wife were alb
sent from home near jefferson City, Missouri,
last Saturday, the house was burned and two
of their children persisted in It,
A skiff crossing the Monongahela river at
Six Mile Ferry, Penna., on Saturday night,
was upset by waves from passing steamer
and three persons were drowned.
The steamship Helvetia, 1161 tons burthen,
was crushed by ice and sunk off Scatterie,
Cape Breton, last Saturday. No lives were
lost, all on board being rescued by the Area
dian.
The house of Samuel Black, at Duncans-
vile, near Ashland, Pa, was destroyed by
fire on Tuesday morning. Two children,
aged respectively three and eight years, were
burned to death.
A congress of churches is in session at
Hartford, Connecticut, discussing basis for
a union of the different Protestant denomina-
tons. 1t will be labor lost, as there will
never be union.
The Old Virginia Nail and Iron Works, at
Lynchburg, which were closed on the 18th
ult. on account of an livestock, have received
an unexpected run of orders, and the nail
mills were started on Monday at their full ca
pacity.
Mrs. Oppenheimer, wife of a young mer-
chant of Fremont, Ohio, committed suicide on
Monday by cutting her throat. A few hours
later her father, prominent Rabbi. named
Gusdorf threw himself into cistern and was
drowned.
Details have been received at Savannah,
Georgia, of the killing of five negroes in dis
pute over a game of cards at Papoto Mills,
about forty miles south of that city. Two
men have been arrested and officers are search
for others.
At Fisherberg, Indiana, on Monday night,
six burglars entered dry goods store, in
which two men were sleeping. The burglars
were resisted with revolvers, and one of them
was killed. His dead body was carried off by
the others.
A special despatch from Edinburg, Texas,
saws the excessive rains which have prevailed
for a week caused the Rio Grande river to
overflow on Monday, submerging thousands of
acres of land planted with corn. The crop
will prove an entire loss.
Another riot between Orangemen and
Catholics is reported at Conception Bay,
Newfoundland The disturbance was quelled
after several of the combatants had been Sc
riously wounded; knives and other deadly
weapons having been freely used.
The crop reports of the Agricultural De-
partment for May indicate very backward
season. The general average of winter wheat
in the principal wheat growing States is 20,
reduction of 9per cent since April, indicating
a production of 240, 900 bushels.
Charles Lehman, aged p, and wife, aged
II. were found dead in their rooms in East
Seventy-fifth street, New York, Tuesday after
noon. They had swallowed Paris green.
They were utterly poverty, stricken, and the
old man had lost a position as Waterman,
which he recently held.
Archbishop Ryan on Tuesday confirmed
100 children in the Roman Catholic churches
at Shenandoah, Pa.,-800 at the Irish church,
200 at the German church and 100 at the
Polish church. Several of the colleries in
the vicinity were idle, the breaker boys being
at church receiving confirmation.
The President has appointed the following
Board of Visitors to West Point: John Bige-
low, of New York; Charles R, Codman of
Massachusetts,; General Fitzhugh Lee, of
Virginia; George Hoadly, of Ohio; James G.
Tappan, of Arkansas; Professor Edward S.
Holden, of Wisconsin; George l.. Miller, of
Nebraska.
Mr.. Hezekiah Snyder, of Biglerville,
Adams county, Pa, met very sad and I'M
expected death on Monday. He carried the
mail between the village and the railroad
station, and whilst waiting at Bryson's ware
vertigo and fell out of door in the second
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cause his death not long after.
At Muscatine, Iowa, on Sunday night, nine
rocks were thrown simultaneously at the house
of B. W. Lord, and FIVE of them crashed
through windows. One of the stones struck
a bed within three inches of the head of Lord S
child. Lord had been employed as custodian
of seventy five barrels of.whisky seized by the
Temperance Alliance. A week ago he was
assaulted with apparently murderous intent.
While drilling lifting hole in the heading
of a cut for the new Croton Aqueduct, near
Tarrytown, New York, on Saturday, the drill
struck some powder in the bottom of an old
vertical hole The resulting explosion caus-
ed the death of Michael and George Hurbut,
and slightly injured two other laborers.
1t is evident that some unexploded cartridges
remained in the old hole when it was blasted.
Gilbert c. Walker ex- Governor of Virginia,
died on Monday in New York of consumption.
He was native of the latter State, where he
was born, at Binghamton, in 1888. He re-
moved in 1865 to Norfolk Va, where he en-
gagged in the practice of law and became presi-
dent of a national bank in that city In 1869
he was elected Governor of the State, and
was subsequently sent to represent the State
in Congress for two terms.
The Newfoundland sealer Young Prince
was sunk by cOllSlOn WIFI an lCeDeTS III tue
Gulf of St. Lawrence on the 10Th ult. She
sank almost Immediately, barely giving the
crew time to save provisions and clothing.
The crew, numbering 81 men, lived on the ice
foe for nineteen days, subjected to the rgors
of the weather. Last Friday they were de-
serted by the French brig Etoile deS Mer and
were all landed at ST. Pierre.
Late Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. Hiram Pfautz,
AZ years of age, who lived near Litiz, Pa.
took her five children to a mill pond, threw
them into the stream, and then jumped in
herself and was drowned, together with two
of her youngest children, aged one and three
years respectively. The three other children,
the eldest ten years old, were rescued and
resuscitated with the greatest difficulty. The
act was caused by religious excitement;
The captain of the Steamship Caspian, from
Liverpool for Baltimore, which put in at
St. Johns, Newfoundland, on Saturday, re-
ports heavy ice in the North Atlantic. He
saws he was forced to go down to the forty
fourth parallel to escape vast belt of ice,
$50 miles wide, east and west, extending south
ward to the tail of the Great Banks. Ice
bergs as low down as the forty-fourth parallel
are simply innumerable and are to be counted
by hundreds.
A valuable TRACT of timber land in Fulton
county, Pa, caught fire on Monday from
burning brush, and William Hess, farmer,
fought the flames until he fell senseless to the
ground. Two of his daughters, Annie and