The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-10-31


A Pittsburg paper publishes list of "a
persons in that city worth 81, 900, 900 each, Is
worth between 81, 200, 900 and 81, 500 200, and
81 worth S1,OOO,OO0. Mrs. Schenley heads
the list and is worth $25, 100000.
A new disease is proving very fatal to the
hogs in Webster county, Iowa. The animals
are attacked with cough and die in a day or
two. Many farmers in the southern portion
of the county have lost all their hogs.
The rear car Of train on the Wabash, st.
Louis and Pacific Railroad was thrown from
the track near Laporte, Indiana, on Monday,
by broken rail, and rolled into ditch.
Nine persons we're injured, all severely.
Rev. Alfred Coffee, colored minister of
Madison, Florida, has been arrested for beat
ing to death his thirteen year-old son, to
make the child honest. The boy had sold
three pounds of stolen cotton to a country
store
A telegram from Pittsburg, Pa, says: All
the Evangelical denominations are holding
day and night revival services in nearly all
churches in Pittsburg and Allegheny. The
movement is an outgrowth of the Moody and
Sankey meetings last sping
The Court of Alabama Claims, which will
expire by limitation on December 31st, is
making rapid progress with the business be-
fore it. One of the officers says that all the
cases before the Court will certainly be dis
posed of by the middle of December.
John Howell, farmer of Wayne county,
Penna., last Friday afternoon shot four of his
children, whose ages ranged from three to
eleven years, and then shot himself. His
wife and daughter were absent at the time.
Howell, who is insane, will likely recover.
A man in Fort Worth, Texas, has contracted
with an English syndicate to deliver on the
wharf at Galveston fortnightly, for the next
five years, 5000 frozen carcasses of beef cattle.
The price is cents per pound for the beef
and cents for the hides, and the shipments
are to begin next week.
Samuel Campbell, twenty one years of age,
residing at Green Spring, Frederick county,
Va, went hunting Saturday. Not returning,
search was instituted, and he was found lying
dead, with portion of his face and top of his
head shot away. 1t is supposed his gun was
accidentally discharged.
On Monday morning, while twenty Italian
laborers were being taken to their work on
the Massachusetts Central Railroad, near
Boston, about half of them were swept off the
open car by contact with box car left stand
ing on siding near Oakdale. Nine men
were injured, one of them so badly that he
died on the way to the hospital.
1t has been decided by the Dominion Cabi-
net to postpone the execution of Riel until
the 18th of November. The Toronto Globe
says: at now remains with Sir John Mac
Donald to say whether or not the sentence
shall be carried out" The Mail is of the
opinion that Riel will be hanged
The ST. Louis club, the champion of the
American Association, won the third of the
five games with the Chicago club, champions
ofthe American League, and thus stands as the
champion base ball club of the world. The
last game was played at st. Louis on Saturday,
the score standing St. Louis ID; Chicago f.
According to letter to the st. Louis Globe
Democrat from Ell Paso, Mexico, there is a
good deal of private talk among the intelli-
gent and property owning Mexicans in Chi
huahua in favor of annexation to the United
States of the northern tier of Mexican States
The letter adds that no open movement
has yet been made, nor has the press touched
the subject; it is all under-current yet.
1t is announced that the President will leave
Washington on Sunday evening for Buffalo,
where he will vote for the Democratic State
ticket and then return to Washington, arriv-
ing at the capital on Wednesday night or
Thursday morning. He will probably make
the Journey alone. Secretaries Manning and
Whitney, who vote respectively in Albany and
New York city, will leave for their homes on
Saturday night or Monday morning.
One of the most destructive prairie fires
ever known in Texas was reported to be rag
ing in several of the "Pan Handle" counties
of that State, few days ago. 1t is estimat-
ed that 500, 900 acres have been burned over,
the burned district extending from the Cana
dian river one hundred miles north. Judge
Brown, of Claredon, has lost one fourth of his
range, and was severely burned in trying to
save his crop of millet. The cowboys in some
places were compelled to ride into the lakes
to save their lives.
Near Waco, Nebraska, few days ago, a
man, named Brandt, was running threshing
machine. A thirteen year old boy, while cut
ting bands, accidentally cut Brandts hand.
Brant told the boy that if he cut his hand
again he would run him through the machine.
The boy became excited, and in few minutes
again slightly cut Brandt's hand. Brandt
thereupon seized the boy and showed him in
to the cylinder head first He was instantly
killed, his head being almost torn from his
body. Brandt was arrested.
A bid of S34, 900 was made Monday for a
seat in the New York Stock Exchange, which
is the highest price since 1881, when S32, 500
was paid for a seat. Many brokers believe
the price will advance still further, and Add
son Cammack predicts that a seat will even
tually be worth $4,000. This advance of
So, 900 since last spring is the result of the
great boom in stocks and the increased bust
ness on the floor of the exchange.
The authorities in Montreal still meet with
much opposition in the work of isolating
smallpox patients. On Sunday carter
named Trepanier called number Of his
neighbors to his assistance and together with
the mob drove off posse of sanitary police
which had come to remove one of the carter S
children to the hospital. At another house
to which the officers went for similar pur-
pose man drew knife and kept them at
bay until he was reasoned out of his folly.
Dispatches from Perigueup, capital of the
Department of Dordogne, France, state that
frightfnl accident has occurred at the
Chancleade quarries near that town. While
large body of workmen were engaged
in taking out stone, the quarries suddenly
fell in, destroying a village situated on the
the ground above the stonepits and killing a
large number of persons. Many are buried
in the ruins, and it is doubtful if any of them
can be rescued in time to save their lives.
Troops have been sent to the scene of the
disaster to aid in the work of relief.
The shipment of grapes from Vineland, N.
j., during the season up to date aggregates in
the neighborhood Of 800 tons, or 1,6oO, 900
pounds. The crop is not yet all marketed,
and this amount does not include the grapes
which have been made into wine, either fer
mented or unfermented. The price has aver
aged three cents per pound, gross, out OF
which sum has to be taken the price of mar
keting, such as freight commission, expenses
of packing, etc., so that the price Melted to
the grower will not be mtie than two cents
per pound, or say $4,000 for the 1000, 900
pounds so far marketed