The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-02-06
News of the Week.

A female brass band has been organized in
Cuthbert, Ga.
The public debt statement for January
shows decrease of SS,672, 1858.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
another call for ten million of three per cent.
bonds.
One field of ice that passed down the Pc
nobscot river last week is declared to have
contained upward of $50 acres.
The colored employees of Georgia railroad
struck last week because of the appointment
of one of their own race as foreman.
DR.. Fillmore Bennett, who years ago wrote
the 'sSweet By and By,,' is reported to be
living in great poverty in Richmond, Ill.
Charles W. Hitchcock, letter carrier of
charge of robbing letters, in default of $500
bail.
A snow slide at Telluride, ON Wednesday
morning of last week, demolished four miners
cabins, killing four men and ipjuring four
others, two of them MORALLY.
Mrs. Bayard, wife of the Secretary ofState,
died last Sunday morning in Washington from
the effects of the shock caused by her daugh-
ter's sudden death short time since.
The Governor of Wisconsin has ordered
special election in the Fifth Congressional
District of that State on February 23d, for the
election of a successor to Joseph Rankin, de-
ceased.
While men were clearing snow from the
railroad track near Frisco, Colorado, on
Monday, three of them were buried by
snow slide under one hundred feet of snow
and rocks.
Cincinnati had the first paid Fire Depart
ment in the world, and its first paid engineer,
Finley Latta, died Saturday night, with
record of 80 years and 10 months service to
his credit.
In the q. S. Court at Fort Smith, Arkan-
sas, on Saturday, Judge Parker passed SEN
tence of death on seven men convicted of
murders in the Indian Territory. They are to
be hanged on April 23d.
The Secretary of the Navy having been in
formed by the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany that another revolution is threatened on
the Isthmus of Panama, has directed Rear
Admiral Jouett to remain at Aspinwall with
the Tennessee for the present.
The Supreme Court of the United States
on Monday reversed the decision of the Su-
preme Court of Virginia in the tax cases
from that State, and decided that the tender
of coupons in payment of taxes is legal.
snow slide at Thayer's Canon, near Park
City, Utah, on Thursday of last week, killed
four men. Their bodies were recovered. A
man named Loring is reported buried under
sixteen feet of snow on Thompson's creek.
State Veterinarian Atkinson, of Wisconsin,
has presented to the Madison Board of Health
a report on hydrophobia, showing that FIVE
persons have died of the disease in that city
within few months after having been bitten
by dogs which showed symptoms of rabies.
An express train on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad ran into the rear of freight
train near Chicago Junction, about one O. clock
last Friday morning, and terrible wrecked
ensued. Four train hands were killed and
number of passengers injured. 1t is said the
disaster was caused by the failure ofthe freight
conductor to display his danger signal on the
rear of the train.
AT Howth Station, six miles from Hemp
stead, Texas, a colored family named John
son have been poisoned by eating the flesh
of stolen hog. A hog owner, to trap thief
who was evidently stealing some of his pigs,
administered poison to some of the latest
with fatal results. Two guests of the John
sons and one of the family are dead, and the
others are in critical condition.
A joint committee of the City Councils of
Pittsburg, Pa. are engaged in an investiga-
ton evening of charges that nineteen members
of the two bodies were corruptly influenced
to vote for important measures adopted during
the year, among them the Natural Gas ordi-
nance, the South Side Water Works purchase
and bill authorizing the introduction of the
Gamewell system of police patrol.
An express train ran into freight train on
a siding of the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
road at Staunton, Virginia, about one o clock
Tuesday morning. Both engines were wreck
ed. A fireman named Cuttings was killed
and two other train hands and a passenger
were injured. The disaster is attributed to
the carelessness of brakeman, Samuel Vie,
who fell asleep while on duty.
A telegram from Little Rock says: "J.J.
Waters, the postmaster at Quincy, small
settlement in Newton county, has been driven
away by his neighbors on account of his man
ner of treating persons having business at that
Office. At last accounts Waters and his wife
were at Jasper, the county seat, and his SON.
in-law and few friends were in his house,
which was besieged, shots being occasionally
exchanged between the PARTIES
The Coroner's jury in the case of the miners
Oriel Coal Mine at Newburg, West Virginia,
on the 21st ult., rendered verdict on Satur-
day night. The jury find that the accident
was caused by leaving an open door in the
air passage in the mine, thereby impairing
the ventilation and allowing gas to accumulate;
that it was due to the failue of the Superinten-
dent to obey the instructions of the State
Mine Inspector; and pronounce the penalty
affixed by the Legislature for such neglect in
adequate.
The Cross Levee at Stockton California,
which separates the lower division of Roberts
Island from the middle division, gave way on
Saturday, flooding $4,000 acres Of land, of
which 5000 acres were In wheat. The levee,
which surrounds the island, broke at the
middle section several days previous, flooding
the section, which comprised 1900 acres in
grain. This brought heavy pressure of
water against the Cross Levee, which was
being constantly strengthened, but, as it
proved, without avail Most of the inundated
land is owned by the. Glasgow California
Land Company, composed principally of for
eign capitalists. The entire loss is estimated
at 100000