The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1869-04-01
Items Of News.

cording To the Blue Book, arc divided
among the principal States as follows
New York, 100; Pennsylvania, ACC
Ohio, 245; Maryland, 2l2; Massaehu,
sets, 20I; Illinois, 1873; Virginia, ZIG
Maine, Ill; Vermont, 81; Michigan
80; Indiana, SO; Wisconsin, 80; New
Jersey, 81; New Hampshire, SO; Con.
uecticut, 81; Iowa, 65; Kentucky, 49,
Minnesota, 81; California, 35; Nilsson
ri, 81; Tennessee, 80; Delaware, %
Kansas, % aud West Virginia 10
The other States and Territories have
representatives in the public offices
from ! to in number. The District
of Columbia has LIS employees in the
different Departments-224 Of these
are day laborers aud 596 are 10 the
Treasury. #
The fact is plain, 10 nearly every one
OF the Southern States, that il the car.
pet.baggers be allowed To run their ma.
chimes without interference little while
longer, they will eventually destroy
each other, They are already couteud.
Ing amoug themselves for the spoils
AMI the negroes arc beginnin. to drup
away from supporting them, their real
character having become tolerubly clear
to SambO's not over.yigorous percep.
tons. The carpet baggcrs will undoubt.
eddy come TO the fate OF the Kilkenny
cats. Time will viudicate the people
upon whom they have SO lavishly spit
their venom.
Mrs. Grant has given her personal
supervision to the relurnishing of the
White House. IL intend" she says,
ITO make Mr.. Grant comfortable there
and shall no doubt soon feel ut home
am told that it has been customary
to have the Commissioner Of Public
Buildings superiutend the household
To u considerable extent-but | don't
desire to have any gentleman do that
for me | shall also engage the steward
and servants, and as the stewards sala.
ry is paid from the treasury, | shall
exercise great care in selecting him
us under the Tenure. of Office act
shall not be able to get rid OF him"
Sixty three vessels are now on the
voyage from San Francisco to Great
Britain their cargoes aggregating one
million seven hundred thousand sacks
oil wheat; eight vessels are en- route for
domestic ports with one hundred and
sixty six thousand sacks of wheat, aud
ten vessels for Rio de Janeiro with
tity.one thousand barrels -four. The
value Of California wheat and -four now
nfloat for China aud other countries is
four millions OF dollars.
\ Coolic on i plautati on the north
coast Of Peru, was denied some request
OF his, and in revenge he at night took
butcher knife aud murdered seven
persons--the proprietor, the wife, hel
aged mother and four deicnceess little
children, In the morning. when every
one was found weltcring in their blood
the public Indignation ran to such 4
pitch that the Chinaman was taken out
into the public square, tied TO an iron
post aud sutrdted pM ,Hrpeatiao.-
Then, 10 full view Of all the Cinnamon
he was burned up alive at his fiery post
a spriug wagon has been invented
by gentleman in Mayslick, KY, which
he proposes 10 run without any kind al
annual or steam power. lie has already
perfected small model which RUS W
or down hill very rapidly The power
Is received from an immense cuilcd stecl
spring, which will run for half an houl
without being wound up. la goi * up
hill the spring cxhausts itself, but II
going down hill it winds itself. The
Inventor claims that he can carry yer,
heavy loads over any ordinary road
A book has been published in Savau
nah, Georgia, entitled the :. Great Earth
quake by which the destruction of Sa
vanah aud the surrounding Countr,
within radius Of fifty miles is to BE-
accomplished " The date of this dread
ful mishap is fixed on the 9Th of June
next. The contents of this book are in
visible until exposed to a very strong
heat, when they will Immediately APP
pear in red or brown characters.
Victor Emmanuel has ninety seven
palaces. The Emperor of Russia ha.
sixty two; the King OF Prussia seventy.
four; Napoleon eleven official ones, aud
ninety three which he might occupy IL.
chief of the State. Francis Joseph oil
Austria has upward OF one hundred
Isabella OF Spain had fiity,two, and she
has now only Que, which formerly Wa,
a private boarding house.
The dryness OF the Egyptian climate
Is such that rain scarcely ever fell il
he upper province, and not more than
i've or six days year in the Delta. -
But Mehemet Ali having planted tweut,
millions of trees IN these districts, tn,
annual average has now increased /,
forty days.
A ncgreas recently chopped little
girl to death with au axe, near Macon
ia, 10 get possession of the enormou,
sum OF s3 10. This is another argu
nent 10 favor CT elevating the black
race to position of equality, social uuc
political, with the whites. Such argu
ments are becoming iearfully plentiful
The ordinary mode of churning in
Chill is to put the milk in skiu-usu
ally dog skiu---tie il to donkey
mount boy on him with rowels to hi,
spurs about the length of the animal
ears, and then run him four mile heats
Two ladies in Lancaster, Mass, latel,
started out with petitions, Que for sigma
lures asking the Legislature to Civ,
women the privilege Of voting; the 9th
er praying the Legislature to allow wo
med to remain in their present sphere
The latter ran ahead twenty six to one
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