The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-03-12

AT FELTON,, Delaware, last week, IN the
presence of at least 900 persons, Jumbo,
the largest hog ever raised in that state was
killed. Several hundred dollars changed
hands upon its weight The owner OF the
hog realized $3.50 from guesses at % cents
each The hog, after being dressed, weigheu
LILO pounds.
II is stated that 800, 600 Germans are pre-
| narinq to leave the Volga Provinces OF Russia
| for the United States. They are nineteenth
century Rip Van Winkles,g aunt in form;
wearing garments of the style OF a hundred
wears ago. and having furniture yet that their
ancestors broughtfrom Germany to Russia.
They aree xcellent people, industrious III
their WAYS. and honest in every thing, out
entirely ignorant of the world as 1t really is.
The Russians look upon them as foreigners,
and are apparently willing to let them go.
George Smiley, of Harrisburg, Pa, aged
sixty.five years, has just married Miss Annie
Carnman, of Southeastern Missouri, aged
thirty. seven years, in Harrisburg; Inc bride
is the youngest sister of The wife OF L. M.
Smiley, son of George Smiley, and by this
union the bride becomes the mother-ln Jaw
of her oldest sister and the latter the daugh-
ter in-law of her youngest sister. The father
and son are brothers in- law. The five chill
dren of I. NJ. Smiley (the SOM are now the
grandchildren of their late aunt.
H. c. Brown, of Denver, has now nearly
completed the finest hotel west Of the Missis
sippi river at a cost of 81, 100000 He paid
$3.50, 900 for the furniture aud $685. for the
silver service Yet when he landed in Colo
RADIO, in 1859, he was without dollar, and as
the little mining camp was beginning to be
built up he made his living by following his
trade as a carpenter. He then took 100
acres of land at spot near what is now
known as Capital Hill at slips an acre.
That lot is today worth S5,0O0,O0O, and
Brown is one of the richest men in the state.
Henry Church, Sr., well known citizen OF
Wetze county, died at Hundred, West Va,
February 10, aged 90 years. Within a year
his sister, Sarah Sole, died, aged 81. They
we're the children of that eccentric character,
'sOld Hundred, and ''Ainety and Nine,
his wife, as they were universally known in
Wetzel. ''One Hundred was native of
England and a British soldier during the
Revolutionary war. He was not naturalized
until he was 100 years of age. de deserted
from the British army and made his homein the
then wilderness along the Ohio, where Henry
Church, his son, was born. "Old Hundred
lived to be III and his wife 100. The COM
bined age of the four father, mother, son
and daughter-was 4l0 years.
The storm of February 1928 and March l
and = was the most extensive that has occur
red for years 1t extended from the extreme
Northwest to the North Carolina coast,
through West Virginia, Maryland, Penn
sylvania. Delaware, New Jersey, New York
and a portion of the New England States.
Immense destruction of property is reported,
while the damage to the various watering
places along the coast and to shipping is fear
4 81, Of tho
could be heard over two miles from the shore:
railroad traffic was suspended, telegraph,
electric and telephone wires were Frustrated,
orchards, houses, barns, fencing, &C., de-
molished. and hay, straw and fodder blown
away. In many places the snow was from 10
to 3S inches deep and it drifted so as to close
the highways.
A man who gave his name as William Cross
was captured near Lyons, New York, Feb
ruary 20, by sheriff posse. He attempt
ed to rob an express car on Central Hudson
train. He shot the express messenger, rified
the safe. and. when the train was stopped
and an attempt made to capture him, he
retreated to a freight locomotive, which had
steam up and started up the road, The
engine of the express train vas uncoupled,
and with railroad hands on board, armed
with shotgun, started i'll pursuit. Alter
a chase the freight locomotive was overhaul
ed and shots were exchanged, but no person
was hurt The robber then abandoned the
locomotive and took Il farmer team. Being
holly pressed by sheriff S posse, he aban-
doned the team and sought shelter in
swamp. where hG was captured. he was one
of the most daring robbers OF the age and is
known throughout the country by several
assumed names. He was recognized as
Oliver G.. Perry