The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1869-06-03


the coming musical jubilee a. Boston
in honor Of the restoration of peace
throughout this landl Au exchange
thinks that everybody of any sense must
sec through this glazing humbug. 1t
is a scheme to fill the pockets Of some
brazen cheats who are rs ready now to
enrich themselves by playing on the
patriotic seusibilities Of thousands of
simple and oredulous people, us they
were, during the civil war, to coin for
tunes for themselves out of shoddy con
tracts 1t will be quite time enough TO.
celebrate the return of peace in this
country when all the States are restored
to their full rights under the Federal
Constitution and their people are re.
lieved from the double affection of civil
aud military despotism A peace fosti.
val now, such MS Boston is getting up,
is fraud that is not whit more res.
pectable than the selling of Yankee
nutmegs aud saw-dust hams.
Wendell Phillips made speech to
the New England Anti.Slavery Society
last week, in which he urged Christian
men to secure TO the negro equal priv.
legeS 10 churches, hotel,, and places of
amusement and recommended the con.
thu nee Of martial law and military oc.
cupation in the South, Behold here the
entire creed of the Radical party.
Frogs are now so extensively used
Tor feed that men make business OF
catching them by the quantity, just as
others catch ash for living, Not
msay years ago the idea Of eating
piece Of a frog, would have caused
severe commotion in an American stom.
ach. Fricaseed frog is delicious, never
theless.
Speaking Of the interference Of our
Government in the affairs of Cuba,
member Of Grants Cabinet lately said,
that this administration will have its
hands full if it attends properly to the
affairs of our own country" If only
Its hands get full the country will have
cause Tor cuugratulatiOn.
Foruey is now trying to argue that
the Pacific Railroad grew out of the
late war, and that many great blessings
have fallen to our lot through the de-
licious influences of that bloody struggle.
llailstoues the size of n mans head
are said By the Columbus La,ie.r to have
fallen in Noxubee county, Miss, on the
18th ultimo, The same paper says
wherever the tornado of frozen mis-.
silcs touched field, universal ruin
followed"
The editor of Norfolk (Va journal
has recently seen quart of strawberries
which weighed one aud three,quarter
pounds. Fifteen berries made the
quart, and each measured over three
inches and half in circumference.
The hotel, and sixty acres of improved
land attached, situated in Cooksville,
Howard county, the property of WIN.
Gushing, deceased has been sold to
Walter Dorsey, Esq, for s., OS5,
Hon. Richard B. Carmichael has been
appointed one of the Trustees of An.
tietam (Nlaryland) National Cemetery,
III the place of Hon Charles L. Phelps,
resigned
The grasshoppers are devastating
Platte county, Mo, and the farmers
pray for somebody to invent a grass.
hopper trap,
lu Illinois, recently, farmer set fire
to the grass on his prairie land, and
burnt up his two children, who were
out at play.
Wheat harvesting has commenced in
many counties in Texas. The crop is
fine, but with a very slight touch Of
rust.
Chicken cholera is very prevalent in
Anne Arundel county, Md, and some
farmers have lost nearly their entire
stock of fowls.
The wheat crop looks cheering. The
prospect of a heavy yield was never
finer, fact upon which we congratu-
late all parties, for all are alike interested
Paper coffns are said to be the latest
invented agony, their principal recon.
mendations being that they are cheap.
AT an election held in Des Moues.
Iowa, on Saturday, it was voted by 535
majority to prohibit the sale of liquor
iu that city.
John T. Hand, Esq, of the Centre.
vile Citizen, has been appointed As.
SCISSOR Of Internal Revenue for Queen
Anne's County.
Immigrant wagons filled with men,
women and children, ofall ages aud sizes,
are pouring into Minnesota, from the
east, north and south.
Thirteen divorces were granted 10
Hampden, Mass, last week. The par
ties are oil "natiye aud to the manor
born"
The annual consumption of sugar in
these United States is now eleven hun.
bred millions Of pounds.
In Norwich, Conn, single chimney
has population of | 900 swallows.
The cattle trade of Chicago aggregates
s5O,OOO,OO0, year.
| A DESTRUCTIVE HAIL STORM IN