The Democratic advocate., 1869-07-01
Items of News.

/ ot tue CuntIAlonu tAWp Al r1NNllth ana ".
! streets, aud more recently clerk in the statis-
tical bureau of the Treasury Department, have
since the establishment of Howard University
| tcolored) been pursuing their studies there,
with other white pupils, and residing at Ken
dali Green barracks. They usually took Bout
| dary street for their road, leayingit at about
| Fourth street, aud passing up the lane TO Mr..
hoore's house, to bypath directly to the Uni
yerslly building. Yesterday they left home
about O'Clock, and took the usual road. chat
| ting cheerinlly until they reached the lane
before mentioned, (back Of the old Catholic
| Burial Gronad,l when a stalwart aud very
black negro, who had been laying iu ambush
among the bushes, sprang out before them and
seiEing the eldest one, awellgrowB young lady
| OF about seventeen years, threw her down.
| Her sisters. aged about thirteen and fifteen
! years, went to her assistance, and with sticks
aud stones beat him to make him desist from
his hellish purpose, and added their screams To
| those OF the victim, to bring some one TO the
| rescue, but they did not succeed In driving him
oil until he had committed a crime for which
it is TO be hoped he will be yet made TO suffer.
| The young ladies, who are well grown and
lock much older than they really are, made
| their way back to their fathers residence, and
he Immediately gave Information to Lieutenant
Johnson who, with some of his men, went in
search OF the misorcant, bat have thus far been
unable to arrest him, although they have clue
which may yet lead TO his arrest and conviction.
Gently. was q most remarkable, not TO say cx-
| traoTdinary man. He made machine to cut
| files before he attained his ma jority; learned
the printers trade, anerward that Of wood en-
craving, then liihography, and alterward
| studied medicine and in that connection be-
came interested in chemistry, becoming finally
one of the most accomplished and eomprehcn-
| sive chemists in the country. lie was a tho
| rough optician, aud had no equal In know ledge
OF photography. He took up the experiments
Of Dagucrre n 1859, and was probably the first
person 10 take portrait BY the camera. lie
showed Professor MOrsc how to take portraits
by means OF a reflector, 50 that the subjects
should not appear reversed. Morse tried to
| get the plan patented in Europe. Mr.. Dixon
built the irsi locomotive, with wooden wheels,
but with the same double crank now used. llv
| originated the process of pho,O-lithography,
and published Il years before it was believed 10
be useful. BY bis process Of transferring, the
| old bank notes were easily eountcrteited, and
| Il was TO guard against the abuse Of his own
process that he brought out the system Of
printing In colOrs on the bills aud had the
method patented, but never received any ben
| eht from the patent. all the banks having used
il without pay. He perfected the system Of
making c0llodion for the photographers, aud
assisted Mr.. Harrison in getting a true system
for grinding the lenses for camera tubes. lie
originated the autilrictiOn metal that has been
for great many years known as Babbitt
| ing business in this country.
The fruit and vegetable crops Of Delaware
will largely exceed the estimates made at she
| commencement Of the season. Already over
LOIS, $50 quarts OF strawberries have been sent
| over the railroads, and the season Is not yet
closed. This quantity does not include the
shipments bywater, or the berries taken by the
fruit canning establishments, or converted in to
wine. 1t is calculated that the crop of the en-
tire peninsula will yield over two million
| quarts, or G2,500 bushels. The shipments Of
cherries and peas have also been large, and the
| early potatoes are coming into the market in
large quantities, The blackberry and buckle
berry crops are also extraordinary, and 1t Is
| anticipated that the estimate OF twenty -one
thousand quarts OF raspberry will fall below
the quantity actually sent to the Northern
cities. The peach crop will also be abundant,
and agents are already in Delaware buying the
iruit while on the trees. The railroads have
| prepared over four hundred properly yentila-
| ted and shelyed ears for the transportation Of
the peaches. II Is believed that these arrange
ments will be hardly sufficient to move the
fruit, aud that more cars and sailing vessels
will be required. The inhabitants Of Delaware
are coDgratulating themselves that the peRin-
sula, which has been Impoverished by failures
in former years Is now favored with anprcce-
deDted crops, aud that comfort and Happiness
will be restored to hundreds Of homes where
want and misery have prevailed for the past
two years.
ST. GATHERINGS telegram, of the ??dultimo,
TO the Toronto Telegraph, says; Between two
aad three O'clock this morning a frightful
tragedy was enacted at the Stephenson House.
Al that hour the inmates of the hotel were
aroused by the report OF a pistol and on pro-
ceeding to investigate the cause, Southern
gentleman named Richard Johns, from the
vicinity Of Baltimore, was found diving in The
bedroom OF bis brother-in-law, tho lifc-blood
flowing from bullet wound in his left breast
Coroner Goodman held an inquest on the body.
and some remarkable facts we're elected, Mr.
Love, brother-in-law Of the deceased, deposed
that he came with him from MARYLAND: thai
Johns has been travelling for the benefit Of his
health, as he suffered from depression Of spirits;
that deceased was unmarsied owned several
farms near baltimore; worth about $3.50, 900,
aud was about lorty-six years of age; that de-
ceased came into. his bedroom after they had
retired last night, and said he was afraid some
one was coming to arrest him that he (Loye)
persuaded him to 20 to bed that witness then
went 10 sleep, and was awakened BY the report
OF pistol aud by deceased falling against the
bed. Love further stated that the pistol used
belonged to him. that he had left Il In his coat
pocket on retiring, aud did not know deceased
was aware he carried the pistol. Mr. Johns
never spoke after the fatal shot was fred and
nobody saw him do 1t. The jury rendered
verdict Of suicide. The body has been taken
to Baltimore for interment.
Some idea may be formed of the immense
trade in petroleum when il Is stated that from
the port OF Philadelphia alone, the following
vessels have cleared during the past week:
narks Tejuca aud Mcpherson, for Gibralt-r,
with l1g,O2S gallons bark Savannah, for
Hayre, with ??s, ,2Os do; brigs Schroeder and
Reidulf, for Cork, with los, ,3T5 do; bark Kale-
va, for Cronstadt with ISL ,l93 do; brig Lena,
for Antwerp, with 40, 400 do; bark Pr0teus, for
| Hamburg, with 100, $40 do. This is a total Of
e0l ,9t3 gallons during the week. aud II, $40, 2l9
| gallons since the first of January. Two ships
fourteen barks and three brigs are now loading
For several years tho gas companies of New
| York and Brooklyn have been largely defraud.
| ed by having their meters ingeniousiy tam
pered with in such such manner as to cause a
loes OF from ten to fifty per cent; but all ef-
/ forts to secure the perpetrators Of the fraud
proved futile. On Thursday night Louis Myor
and Arnold Louis, two Germans, were arrested
| in Brooklyn, having in their possession imple-
ments suited to altering gas meters, and il Is
claimed that they bad been actively engaged
In the business. They were committed for
trial.
Last week scam In the rock-cuttng on the
Ridgedeld Branch Railroad In Connecticut was
/ charged with forty-two kegs OF powder and a
quantity Of nitro-gl glycerine, the whole charge
costing $500. The explosion shook the win
dows in Ridge6eld, two miles away, and re.
moved earth and rock, the displacement OF
which by tho usual course would have cost
So, 900.
There has recently been preseutedto the His
toricai Society OF Pennsylvania manuscript
folio volume Of some 9c0 pages, containing thu
complete records ofbirths, deaths and marriagei
amongst tho Quhkers OF Chester comfy from
about the year 100 to the present time. Thil
immense work was complied by Gilbert Cope
Of Chester county, and cantains records o
interest TO many citizens whose ancestors
belonged to the Quaker Society.
IL Is apprehended that the number OF Chimes,
who will arrive here within ten years will b,
estimated BY millions; and the theory of som,
newspapers and politicians, that they com,
merely for the purpose of working, withou