The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1869-07-29
Items of News.

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ed to this exodus from foreign countries
for tho rapid ointment Of our own, We
fiud that Germany sent us Sl5,419
persons as additions to our population
and consequent wealth. Ireland, &c.,
s3l England, 1914, lGG; Great Britain,
not specified 420,0lS; PRUSSIA, 81 $50;
Scotland 25,929; Sweden and Norway,
IS, 2S9; Denmark, 1903; Holland,
IL POS; France. 40, 1888 British Amer
lea, 1OS,53I; China, 65,O43; and other
nations in similar ratio. China prom.
iscs within a very short time, to com
pete with Europe, the demand power
fully stimulating the supply which that
storehouse of population is able to dis
pense In this vast multitude Of immi.
grants, but few claim to represent the
professions and the arts or manufactures;
their faculty is for plain, downright
work, precisely that which the country
most needs. OF laborers, there are
515, 2l7; of farmers, 2G4, $40 of me.
chanics, 6,503; of miners, 72,4l4
and of servants, 6S,62S. This classif.
cation comprises one.half the entire
number, but the other half, whose occu.
pations are unknown, may be distribu-
ted in about like proportions.
Good news Of fat things have long
come to us from the West, aud the cur.
rent figures from Nebraska shows that
the line Of descent is unchanged. That
State returns valuation of S42, 900 900
now, against 81 100000 seven years
since. II was organized as territory
only in 1854, and was shorn Of Dakota
in 1861. The discovery Of precious
metals in other regions has attracted
much of the immigration that would
otherwise have sought its fne climate
and rich fields. A long and exhausting
war has been wagcd for good portion
of its whole history, and yet we have an
increment so great as to show skiold
increase in the wealth Of the State
The fact is full Of cheer to all parts of
the country, as it is especially to that
State
The people who have visited Niagara
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change in the appearance Of the Horse
Shoe as well as the American Falls
The former has evidently given way
almost thirty or forty feet iu that part
OF the cone where the water looks so
green, on the side nearest Goat Island,
and it is estimated by biologists that
from one to two hundred tons OF rock
must have fallen. This has not marred
the appearance of the Falls 1t is now
settled fact beyond question that
niagara does cave III some each year
and the change which has taken place
this summer is probably the most ex.
tensivc in the recollection of the present
generation.
The poor rich men of New York, who
returned to the Government twenty dol
lars Of annual income and lived up to
twenty thousand, are being oyerhauled
by the Revenue Assessors, and some
compelled to disgorgc. One merchant
had hid his modest light so long that when
it was uncovered he vas found to have
evaded the tax to such an extent that
he owed the Government seventysix
thousand dollars, and had to disgorgc !;
another owed twenty.Rix thousand dol
lars several had evaded 10 the extent
Of twenty-five Thousand dollars, and so
on for quantity.
A call is made upon the negroes to
furnish fifteen or twenty families of in.
telligence to 20 to Liberia to act as
Christian missionaries among the IA
tlves. The Colonization Society pays
the expenses Of emigrants from their
present homes to The place of sailing,
| gives them a free passage to Liberia,
and six mouths eupport on arriving
there, with ten acres Of land to each
single man and twenty-five to each
family.
The New York SIN has received the
pcdigrees ola bull, two cows and three
heilcrs, impcrted by Walcott & Campbell,
of Oneida county, New York, from Eng
land, at an expense of 1872, 900. These
animals are from the famous short horn
herd of Mr.. Booth, of Warlaby, North
allerton, Yorkshire, whose family for
over century has made the imprvc.
ments of this breed ofcat,le snec;ollv
A swarm of bees, in hive that was
being carried on Canadian railway
train, escaped recently. The bens stung
everybody on the cars and swarm were
observed on the wing few rods behind
the train, doing their best to keep up,
generally coming in as the train stopped