The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1869-03-25
Items OF News.

means 10 purchase 4SD acres of land at
government. prices, upon which he went
TO work. Ills labor was reasonably re
wnrded. After seyen years of hard
toll and economical living hc began the
erection Of handsome residence, which
he flushed in 1864 His barn will &C
commodatc 100 head of horses and eat
tie, 225 tons of hay, and the bins will
hold 10 900 bushels OF grain. The up.
per floors arc laid with two inch plank
Mr.. Buck last year sold $4,000 worth
Of stock, and has now on hand some so
head of horses and 40 head Of cattle
He has under plough 220 acres, besides
100 acres in timothy grass.
One Anthony Wayne Faulkner, at
present Radical Representative from
the parish of Caldwell, Louisiana, to
the State Legislature, has been charged
with wholesale arson, aud with cndeav
orins to collect $4,000 on the life insur
anee policy of confederate who was
dead only "iu my minds eye, Horatio, "
A fine law maker is this Faulkner
One OF his propositions in the Lecisla
ture was the appropriation Of 800 600
for the determination of worms and cat
erpillars 10 the State. Greet genius
aud great honesty combined character
lzc the bogu Legislatures of the Mill.
tary Monarchics.
Graht says in his inaugural, "all laws
vii! be faithfully executed, whether
they meet my approval or not" This
is what the new President breaches; let
us compare it to his practice He is
hardly in Office before h, asks Congress
to repeal II very important law TO enable
man, otherwise ineligible, to serve in
his Cabinet. He didn't like this law,
and therefore didn't want to execute it
Why not practice what he breaches p
How many more laws he will require to
be wiped from the statute books for his
accommodation no one can tell.
a Chicago paper prints statement
to the effect that a half.witted boy has
confessed to having murdered Hon.
Murray Mcdonnell, of Indiana. The
boy says he had dispute with Mr..
Mcconnell about Sll, and, becoming
enragcd struck him on the head with a
hammer. The boy is left handed, and
1t is asserted that the blows which
proved fatal must have been struck by
a ieit-handed person. Mr. Robinson,
who is under arrest charged with the
nsrdor, maintains u calm aud cuuGdeut
demeauor, aud feels assured that he will
be able to establish his innocence
A curious disease prevails on the
West Coast Of Africa, especially on
Glbooo, which consists 10 an irresistible
INCLINATION to sleep No pain seems to
be experienced; but the patient stun.
blcs readily, his step is lettering, sense
Of feeling seems to be wanting. and
objects used as u support are grasped
very unsteadiy The consciousness
does not seem To be diminished. aud
the breathing aud digestion are normal
When the patient Is awakened he re
turns again into deep sleep in IA very
short time The disease does not yield
to any remedies, aud generally ends in
death. Its precise character has not
yet been ascertained with certainty.
The frog in the fable that tried to at
tain the size OF the OK, was a pigmy
compared with one of his tribe lust
caught near Indian Camp Spring, Ten
nessee. The latter is described to be
three feet four inches in height, when
III sitting posture, weighs SO pounds.
aud thinks nothing OF making leap of
ten feet. Its eyes are two aud n half
inches in diameter, and its general ap,
pearance is hidcous and repulsive 10
the extreme. 1t was found in large
cave, and its captor, Tennessee far.
mer, intends TO exhibit il to the public.
Two serious revolis occurred on
Thursday last in the Sing Sing Peniten.
tiary. In the FIRST, two OF the keepers
were gagged, one SO severely that he
died from equation, aud FIVE of the
convicts escaped, In the second in
stance six of the conyicts attempted to
take possession Of sloop lying at the
wharf The guards fred on them.
mort,Ilv and recan,nrad ,ha o' mhol,
party.
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