The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1869-05-06
Items Of News.


adl Savannah now fanks 40 high that
sl,s stands secspd ID New Orleans only
10 the extsot OF her operations outstrip-
Ping even Mobile FAs an eyideace Of
the magnitude Of the Savannah cotton
trade, il may be stated that she has
during the past thirty days shipped 81.
rec, 10 foreiga potts "A, 500 bales of
Upland aud 743 hsles of Sea Island,
sRd coasisise. daEiag the same tune,
81 ,324 bales Of Upland aud 253 bales
Of Sea Island. The letter also says
that another prominent article in the
trade Of Sayanbah Is gasno. During
the past four mouths the Georgia Cen.
tral Railroad alone transported about
80, 600 tons, valued at over 81. 600 900
Foor boys, the eldest seventeen years
Of age, were arrested at Utica, New
York, lsst week for robbing freight cars
on the Central Railroad. They have
been il the habit for year or more Of
coucealing themselves on the trains,
breaking iato cars while they we're 10
motion, aod rotbing thcin Of valuable
goods. IL Is thcagh, that since they
FIRST commenced they have pluudered
the irains Of upwards of $3.50, 600 worth
Of goods, large portion Of which they
subsequently destroyed They all
plead guilty, and implieate a mao named
VIM. Ferry as The instigator of the
robberics.
A Paris iettcrwriter says: "On the
morning Of his quitting the Grand Ho-
tel Tor London, the Nabob Of Bengal
paid for three coats OF Russian sable
made Tor himself and his three sous.
the cold weather, to which he is 50 IN
accustomed, having rendered warm
garments necessary. The bill for these
furs amounted to l0S,000f, that is
s2l 600 His Highness paid the bill
without hesitation. Black sable Of
Russia is expensive The set of this
fur presented by the Emperor OF Rus.
STA to Patti during her recent visit to
st. Petersburg is valued at 5000
guineas
Mrs. Jas NJ. Page, near Edesville.
Kent county, Nd, has now in her yard
goose that Is known to be seventy
Eve years old; has been in the Miller
family, of Swan creek, for 80 years.
Aunt Sallie" has never failed TO raise
flock Of goslings, or to lay her first
egg on Valentines day, until the past
three years. Now she is nearly blind,
and tOtiers as she walks.-Chestertora
Transcript,
There is a yousg lady velocipedist IN
Boston who, while riding, picks up two
chairs, one 10 each hand, and carries
them around the room; makes eights
aud curves without use of hands; makes
circuit Of the room without use Of
hands or feet; stands on one foot on
the saddle, and performs the feat oil
passing hoop over the head, and man.
ages to get through it while riding
\ printer 10 the Colunlbus. Ohio SHa
ONCE aud ydun: companion, with more
nerve than discretion, have reeently
been seeking to eclipse the William
Tell romance. At distance oil forty
yards cue of them held target not
four inc es above his head, and allowed
his companion To shoot al il with
Potters rife. Tn. bail very nearly
centred the bulls eye.
The Charleston Courier believes that
the cotton crop Of the South cannot,
under any circumstances, exceed 3 900.
900 bales this year, owing to the exten.
sive migration OF negroes to the cities
and towns, and the withdrawal Of freed.
women from farm labor The Colum.
bus ga Saa take, similar view Of
the matter.
Two cclipses Of the sun will take
place this year, as follows: Partial
eclipse Of the suo, June %, at 8 90 10
the morning. Total eclipse of the sun,
August 9Th, at 4 06 in the evening.
This last will b. the greatest eclipse Of
the sun that will happen 10 this coun.
try until the last year Of the century.
Peter Cartwright, the famous Metho
dist preacher, has been sixty five years
in the itinsrant service, aud fifty years
presiding elder. Within the last two
months he has labored with great sue
cess 10 his district in llljnos His
wife, to whom he was married in 1903.
still survives.
A machine has been invented and
put in operation in California, which, il
is said. has cut, threshed. cleaned, aud
sacked the wheat from twenty acres 10
ten hours, with only three men to work
it.
William Sturgis, Of Chicago, who has
Just gone into bankruptcy, reports his
liabilities at four million. four hundred
and ffty-fvc thousand dollars. They do
everything on a liberal scale ia Chicago.
Last year Mifin Kennedy, West
Texas millionaire, fenced in a tract OF
100, 900 acres, where be keeps his herds
Of about 1000 cattle, besides horses.
mules aud sheep
Within distance of two miles on the
James river, in Virginia, there is IN
improved water power enough to carry
100 factories with twenty sets of una.
ehinery each
At private wedding on Madison
avenue, N. y, last week, the bride is
said 10 have worn $40 900 lace dress,
purchased in Berlin. The groom gave
his wife necklace, v. lued at $4,000.
Leonard Huyek, President of the late
Merchants National Bank of Washing.
ton, convicted of stealing sl3, 900 in
bonds, has been sentenced to two years
Imprisonment
During the freshet Of last week an
emigraut train was del,ved thirty bo.rs