The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-10-23
News of the Week.

News of the Week.
An inch to an inch and a quarter of snow
fell in portions of Rockland county, New
York, on Saturday afternoon.
A heavy snow-storm prevailed on Tuesday
morning west of Ogden, Utah, seriously in
terfering with the telegraph lines.
A shower of rain, of several minutes dura-
ton, fell from perfectly clear sky at Rhine
beck, New York, last Friday afternoon.
On Wednesday of next week the President
and his Cabinet will go to New York to attend
the Inauguration of the Bartholdi statue.
At Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on Saturday night,
a shooting ARRAY occurred in gambling sa-
loon, in which four men were wounded, one
MORALLY.
The President on Saturday appointed Ben
jamin Folsom, of Buffalo, to be Consul at
Sheffield, England. Mr.. Folsom is a first
cousin of Mrs. Cleveland.
Since September list, 1885, twenty-six ves-
sells belonging to the Gloucester district feet
have been lost. The lives of 104 men have
been lost, leaving % widows and so fatherless
children.
There were two deaths from malignant fever
at Biloxi and one at Mississippi City on Sat-
urday. One of the victims was the wife of a
physician who treated the fever cases at Bill
ok in August last.
The high license law of Missouri is said,
during its three years of operation, to have
reduced the number of saloons in that State
by about one fourth, while increasing the rev.
enue from them nearly double.
The first snow of the season fell at Concord,
New Hampshire, on Saturday morning. The
mountains in the vicinity were covered.
Snow fell thickly the same morning in por-
tons of the CatskIll Mountains.
At meeting of the West Pennsylvania
Synod of the Lutheran Church, at Chambers
burg, this week, Mount Carmel congregation,
near Hanover, Pa, was received into the
synod and attached to the West Mannheim
charge.
Private advices received in San Francisco
report the cholera still ravaging Corea. In
Seoul, city of 200, 900 inhabitants, the death
rate has reached the frightful average of 1000
per day. The task of attempting to bury the
dead has been abandoned.
Matt Washington, colored, was taken from
the Jail at Dyersburg, Tennessee, on Thursday
of last week, and lynched by a mob. He had
assaulted woman and confessed his crime.
He also confessed that he had committed
three other felonious assaults.
1t is estimated by prominent grape growers
of Hammondsport, New York, that 500 tons
of grapes were frozen on vines on the shores
of Lake Keuka, on Saturday night. The
mercury went down to 20 degrees. The vari-
cites frozen were principally Catawba, Con
cord and Diana.
The great sale of Pierre Lorillard's famous
stations and brood mares took place last
Friday at the Rancocas farm in New Jersey.
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$142. 1886. Twenty five men purchased the
whole stock, five of whom took more than
half. Iroquois, the only American horse that
has won the English Derby, St. Leger, and
and Prince of Wales stakes, sold for sc, 900.
A man named Wilds, of Union Falls,
Maine, on Tuesday sold cask of new cider
of Winfield S. bennett, of Saco. The latter's
son James, aged nineteen years, drank third
to glass of the cider. bennett took a tea
spoonful and his wife tasted it. All were
taken sick and the son died on Wednesday
morning. Mrs. bennett is very sick, but the
physicians think she will recover. On the
head of the cask was branded the word 'Poi-
son." The cask was purchased from a Bid
deford undertaken, and originally contained
embalming fluid.
A fire broke out at Eastport, Maine, on
Thursday of last week, and ragged for ten
hours, destroying ten sardine factories, two
hotels, and about thirty dwellings, the Gus
tom House and Post Office, and every place
of business where goods of any description
were kept for sale, except two small grocery
stores which were out of the path of the fire.
The factories gave employment to about 1000
persons, who are now deprived of their means
of support. The offices of both the newspa-
pers published there, the Standard and Senti-
nel were also burned.
The latest reports of the disaster at Sabine
Pass, Texas, show that 127 persons are known
to be drowned and missing. One body was
found thirty miles from the scene of disaster.
The destitution among the survivors is ex-
IRENE. Out of more than $50 houses in the
village, less than six remain standing, and
they are ruined. The waves broke against
the lighthouse in solid walls fifty feet high,
tearing out the windows at the very top oil
the structure. Sabine Pass was small town
where Sabine bay flows into the gulf of Mex
leo. The storm drove the waters of the gulf
many feet high over the town and for miles
back into the country. Some bodies were
washed over into Louisiana. Relief COM
mittees went to work Immediately to aid the
sufferers and care for the bodies of the de-
ceased.
Reports from Indiana Illinois and Mich
igan show that the storm last week dam
aged and demolished buildings, levelled fen
ces and telegraph poles and uprooted trees,
but nc lives are known to have been lost on
land. A number of frame buildings in the
suburbs of Chicago were blown down. The
little town of Lehman, consisting of about
fifty frame houses, on the line of the Chicago
and Northwestern road, was entirely demol-
ished. The buildings were not completed.
The storm was the severest known for years
on the lakes. The schooner o. NJ. Bond, OF
Oswego, with wheat from Detroit for Buffalo,
has been totally lost and two of her men
drowned. The schooner George NJ. Case, of
Chicago, foundered last Friday off Port Col
bourne, Ontario, and her captain and two men
were lost.
The Democratic County Convention al
Charleston, South Carolina, ON Tuesday
adopted, with great enthusiasm, the follow
ing: "Resolved, That the Democratic Conven
ton of Charleston county returns its most
grateful and truly fraternal thanks to the
American people who, without distinction oil
section or of political feeling have come to
the aid of Charleston in her hour of supreme
necessity. The assistance so promptly and
generously given is accepted as an expression
of the touch of nature which makes the whole
world kin, and also as gratifying proof that
previous differences and divisions are for
gotten, and that this is indeed and in truth
reunited country, for which and in whose
service none will go further than the Democ-
racy of this county"
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