The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-04-10
News of the Week.

AT Hammonton, N. j., there is an incu
batting establishment at which COCO eggs can be
arti6cially Matched at one time.
Scarlet fever is so prevalent in Westminster
county, N Y, that several schools there
have closed and the text books been burned.
Owing to the dullness in trade, six cigar
factories, employing five hundred hands, at
Terre Hill, Lancaster county, Pa, suspended
last Saturday.
The liquor dealers of Massachusetts are
organizing for mutual protection. 1t is pro-
posed to enter the political arena and to use
the boycott
The United States Senate on Thursday
passed the House bull to provide for the
erection of congressional library building on
Capitol Hill.
Thomas A. Thatcher, Professor of Latin
and Literature in Yale College, was found
dead in bed on Wednesday morning. He was
in his 72nd year.
The house of Joseph Hobel, in Reno, Min
nesota, was destroyed by an incendiary fire
early last Friday morning, and his two-year-
old daughter persisted
A young woman tried several pipes of OPT
UNI in Chicago den, kept by Chinaman,
and died soon afterwards from the effects of
the drug, on Monday.
The Planters Hotel in St. Louis was dam
aged by fire early on Saturday morning in
that portion occupied by the domestics. -Four
girls persisted by suffocation-
A Chinese student in the junior class at
Yale has received the right, by scholastic
merit, to be one of the eight speakers selected
for the exhibition next month.
Cattle are reported to be dying in large
numbers of starvation in the Choctaw and
n
is difficulty in getting food for them.
Sixty of the leading business meu of Nash
vile, Tenn, have organized an association to
promote manufacturing in that city, which has
already made rapid strides in that direction.
A passenger train was blown from the track
near East Saginaw, Michigan, Tuesday after
noon, and three cars went into a ditch.
Eleven persons were injured, one dangerously.
Large numbers of starfsh, which have
proved to be very destructive to young oys
and harbors along the north shore Of Long
Island.
The wife of Nathan Griffith of Westmin-
ster, Ontario, cut her husbands throat last
Friday morning while he was asleep, because
she wanted to kill him and go preaching.
She was crazy from religious excitement.
The number of arrivals at the hotels of
Jacksonville, Fla, for the six months ended
March 81, aggregated Sc, 493, an increase over
the same months of the season of 1S84-S5 of
1853, and of the season of 1884 of 3,525.
1t is said at the Navy Department that the
cruiser Atlanta will be ready for her officers
and crew in about month, and that the
cruiser Boston will be ready in June. 1t is
not expected that the Chicago will be ready
for sea for year.
DR.. w. Fl. Boyd, in Jail at Camden, Ark,
for horse stealing, is wanted for other offences
in various parts of that state and Texas. He,
has confessed that he married eleven wives
since 1862, and given a list of their names,
with the times and places in which he espoused
them.
1t is reported from Labrador that the people
living between Esquimaux Point and Blanc
Sablon are starving, and keep themselves
alive by eating dogs, 500 of which have been
killed. 1t is feared, unless aid is given, that
from 100 to $50 of these people will die this
spring from starvation.
Returns of the election in Kansas City,
Missouri, show that the Republicans elected
Henry C. Krumpf Mayor and the City Audi
tor, while the Democrats carry all the other
offices and elect ten out of fourteen Aldermen,
giving them the City Council.
Mr.. Gladstone in the English House of
Commons on Thursday made his promised
statement in reference to his proposed Irish
reforms. his scheme embracing an Irish Par
lament at DnbIin. with mowers of local self
Government. bnt with mo control over matters
reIot;nr m The revenues of the amnire
&C To, w;.oo; Tno-5...
nne ~ 80, blooi,e as.soU;n Iarg,
,,ian;na nil; he Inmher rarJs soan fsctogv
and eighty dwellings. One thousand men
were thrown out of employment and four
hundred persons made homeless. The loss on
property is estimated at $500, 900. i
Three new Hoe nresses of that FIRMS latest
patents are to be added to the eouipment of
the New York World, giving. as that journal
states. total capacity for turning out 10000
perfect copies of the World every minute, or
over 100000 complete copies Of the World
per hour. or $50, 900 copies in two hours"
Gov Lee. of VIRGINIA. in accordance with
a resolution of the Legislature, issued proc
lamation on Monday, setting forth the decla-
rations contained in the resolutions, in effect
that no less favorable settlement of the state
debt will be made than provided for by the
Riddleberger bill. The Governor calls upon
the people to pay their taxes in money, and
not embarrass the state by using coupons, &c.
T,aura Phillins. a pretty and we'll educated
vonno woman. committed suicide in Omaha.
On T1esdav "She took blood from her own
va;ns and wrote with Il the folIowinq note
which was fonnd IN her n;llov si7 Tanra
Pb;IIins hereby sell INV sonl to the devil. in
consideration for which he agrees to give me
wealth. beauty, and the power to overcome
all nv enemies y She left a comfortable
home in Iowa, three years ago, and went step
bv step into the slough of degradation.
Tha election in East G. Ton;s -, T,osdor
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ppther no;nts and that strict nsrty lines were
drawn in some places. in the majority of
which the Democrats were victorious.
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