The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-07-10
News OF the Week.

The senate has confirmed Hugh Thompson
to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
1t is again rumored in Washington that
Attorney General Garland will soon retire
from the cabinet.
The President ON Tuesday nominated Fitz
John Porter to be Colonel in the army of
the United States.
Colonel George B. CorkhilI, ex-U. S. At
torney for the District of Columbia, died
suddenly at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, Tuesday
evening.
At Evansville, Indiana, on Saturday after
noon, two boys playing with matches started
a fire in a stable. The result was the de-
struction of fifteen stables and eight dwellings.
A two DAYS rain last week caused a dam
aging rise in all the rivers of Central and east
Virginia. The lower part of Richmond was
flooded and washouts occurred on several
railroads.
During the fiscal year which ended on June
3Oth, there were issued from the Pension
Office 81, 422 pension certificates, which is
672l in excess of the number issued in any
previous year.
William Henry, father of twenty-four chill
dren by two wives, committed suicide in
Greenbush, near Troy, New York, last Friday
night by cutting his throat. He was 70 years
of age, and tired of life.
District Assembly No, "a, of the Knights
Labor, at Chicago, has passed resolutions
calling upon all local assemblies of the dis
trict to expel Anarchists who may now be-
long to them and ordering them TO admit
none hereafter.
Smallpox, supposed to have been imported
from Canada, has appeared among the settlers
near Steelwalt Post office, in Michigan. In
a family named Hannah two children have
died. and the father, while delirious from the
disease, fed to the woods.
Joseph Opperman, aged 20 years, died in
Galveston last week from the effects OF rat
poison taken with suicidal intent. He was
the son of prominent and wealthy citizen.
was absent on bridal tour, and it is said
was enamoured of the young lady his father
married
Nearly 1900 persons went to the fair
grounds at Chicago on Saturday to see RUM
ing races. The crowd pushed through the
ropes on to the track as four starters came
up at furious pace. A. l.. Seeley and boy
named Richards received injuries from which
they will probably die, and several others
were hurt.
In Barnwell county, South Carolina, on
June LIST, John A. Steedly was publicly cow
hided by W. I. Connolly and A. L. OFT, fol
circulating sladerous reports about Connolly,
sister Emma. At Hunters Chapel Church
on Sunday morning, while the Sunday schoo
was in session, Steedly was shot and killed
BY Emma Connolly. She gave herself up to
the authorities after the shooting.
In Ellicott county, Kentucky, recently,
moonshiners who were opposed by Mr.
Parton in the manufacture of untaxed whisky,
took revenge by burning the Baptist Church!
to which he belonged, burning his house ano
the dwellings of three of his neighbors and
poisoning large number of cattle. Parton,
accompanied by his neighbors, James Pen
nigton, Tobias Cox and Samuel Slater, wen
cunning for the incendiaries, and, coming
upon two of them, named respectively Simen:
and Turkison, shot them down and burned
them.
Josephine Castor, aged Is years, was killed
in New Orleans on Friday of last week by
Felix Alvey, aged Is. They were playing
together, when the girl commenced teasing
the boy. He hurled q pair of scissors at her
and one of the blades entered the carotid ar
terry, inAictng a wound from which she bled
to death in forty minutes. In the same city
on Saturday, in a fight between Joseph Ellis
aged IA, and Zeptune Ferguson, aged IL,
both colored, the former was stabbed to death
by the latter.
In Milwaukee, last Sunday night, the jury
in the Anarchist cases, after having been out
% hours, found Frank Hirth, Carl Simon and
Anton Palm guilty of conspiracy to burn the
court house and destroy the records, and Of
melting mobs to riot. For twenty hours the
ballot stood ten for conviction and two fol
acquittal One of the jurors, who is alleged
to be Socialist, voted for conviction after
r. lollot, The m eantanae
for riot or conspiring to riot is one years I'M
prisonment or fine not exceeding $500.
1t is reported that twenty or thirty cows
have died of what is supposed to be hydro,
phobia in Ballard county, Kentucky, and
many more are dying. The diseased cattle
suddenly become frantic, below with pain
and fight with each other Men on horse
back have been chased by them. The cattle
die in spasms and frothing at the mouth
within twenty-four hours after being taken
sick. Two dogs, supposed to be mad, were
killed a few weeks ago near Hinkleyvllie,
and it is thought they may have spread the
disease.
The re- union of the Third Army Corps was
held on Friday of last week at Gettysburg,
Gen. Sickes delivering the address The
following monuments were dedicated the same
day, and delivered to the care of the Memo
rial Association: Seventy-fifth Pennsylvania,
in the National Cemetery; One Hundred and
Fourth Pennsylvania, First Rhode Island,
near the peach orchard; Second New Hamp-
shire and Sixty eighth Pennsylvania, in the
peach orchard; Fifth New Hampshire, near
the wheat field; Berdan Sharpshooters. near
where Gen. Hancock was wounded, and the
Ninety ninth Pennsylvania, at the Devils
Den.
The Chesapeake Dry Dock Company are
preparing to begin the construction of dry
dock at New Port News, Va. The dock will
cost $685., 200, and will employ 600 hands for
one year in its construction. When complet-
ed, the Norfolk Public Ledger says, it will be
the finest structure of its kind in this country
and will embody all the latest improvements
of engineering and mechanical skill. The
stockholders, who are mainly New 7 ork cap
italists, anticipate that it will be profitable
investment, as they say more vessels come
into Hampton Roads in distress and needing
repairs than to any harbor on the coast OF
America.
The Dominion cruiser Terror captured
three more American fishing schooners on
last Friday night, at Sand Point, near Shell
burne, Nova Scotia. The schooners are the
George W. Gushing, City Point and c. b.
Harrington, all of Portland, Maine. They
are charged with permitting men to land or
taking water on board before reporting at
the local Custom House. 1t is assorted
that Captain Jewett, of the George W. Cush-
ing, had been ashore bargaining for bait, but
did not purchase any, Consul General Phelan
regards the seizures as being made on only
one ground, that of uninporiant infraction of
Customs laws, and says he does not believe
any infraction of the Fishery Convention can
be established
Waynesboro', Pa, had her big day Satur-
day, the 3rd inst. The principal features of
the occasion were the contest between fire
companies, hook and ladder companies and
brass bands, The procession, which was
quite lengthy, moved at l o'clock; then there
was public speaking, and after this the coz
test. The Hagerstown Fire Company, Hose
Company and Hook and Ladder Company
had no competitors, and carried off the prizes
respectively of S35, SIS and $35. There
were seven bands present-Hagerstown, Car
Isle, Fire Company's, Hook and Ladder
Company's, Greencastle, Williamsport and
Union Bridge. The last three of these enter
ed into the contest, the result of which was
that the FIRST preminp, $40, was awarded to
the Union Bridge Band, and the second
premium, $40, to Williamsport Band.
There was riot at the conservative work
mems club house at Dublin, Ireland, on
Monday evening provoked by the men in the
club, who committed nearly all the breaches
of order catholic procession passed the