The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-07-14

customary according 10 tue LHVtisH'
mans Mdgaz6ie, to subject the young
ladies in boarding schools to corr oral
punishment. The usual method is to
strap the offender to an ottoman, or
chair, and administer the fdgelhtiou
with strap. In recent case the
whippec, damsel Of sixteen, rebclled
against the whipper, aud the next day,
getting midshipman Cher cousiu) to
strap the matron down, in the absence
of the school, seized the leather thongs
and took sweet revenge. Perhaps we
may be wrong, but our sympathies are
with the damscl
Every change Gen. Grant makes IN
his Cabinet is change for the worse.
Each new member is Intellectually
weaker than his predecessor, aud if
this thing goes on through second
Presidential term he will in the end
have reduced his Cabinet to mere
collection Of orang .outaugs - LoHiScWs
COurier.J0Hnui
According to the report Of the Tax
Commissioners, New lo5k's tax lists this
year will be S24Sl0,s22 in excess OF
the property OF residents, aud $500 ,S79
less on taxes on shareholders in banks.
In 1869 the total valuation of real cs.
tate was 1858, ia ,469; in 1870 it is
SIP, 1874, $50, an increase Of S59,4S9,.
1872.
The last recorded present to the Gov.
ernment was in the shape Of two pairs
Of French morocco walking boots, with
gold buttoned and monogrammcd gold
plated heels, in which the wife and
daughter of the ADMINISTRATION are cx.
pected to enease their feet when waltz.
ing down at Long Branch"
Claimants to the property located at
the corner Of Broadway and Canal
streets, New York, valued Mt IS, 200.
600, have turned up in Georgia vii.
lagc. They say one Of their ancestors
gave a lease on this land for one hun,
dred years, which time has just expir.
ed. The tenants on the property have
no intention as yet ofmoyinS.
It has often been observed, at a pub.
lie entertainment, that when there is
anything particular to be seen and eve.
rybody wants particularly to see it, every
body immediately stands up and thus
effeetnally prevents anybody from seeing
anything.
The trotting match for $4,000 at
Fleetwood Park, New York. on Friday.
was won by Goldsmith Maid. George
Palmer took the 81 200 awarded to the
second horse, and American Girl. the
$3.50, to the third. Time , 22l, 2,2l3
2,23i, 2,21.
While digging the cellar for new
church in Iowa valuable vein of iron
ore was struck, and the trustees con
cluded to put up with their oldmecting
house q while longer.
There are two patient white men in
CASTOR n. G. Last Monday they got
into fight, at the end of which one
threw the other down aud set ON him
four hours.
Chang, one of the Samese twins, is
pining for North Carolina, but Eng will
not leave Europe, and Chang does not
feel as il he could come home without
him
The largest proprietor of "thrcc card
monte games at the New York races
gets himself up as a clergyman, and
achieves a wonderful success as " cap.
per-"
A Western paper describes a letter Of
Horace Grecley's as looking "as il
somebody had smashed a bottle of ink
on 1t and had tried to wipe it off with a
currycomb."
Hon. Montgomery Blair is mentioned
as candidate for the Democratic nom.
ination for Congress in the Fifth Dis.
triet of Maryland
a good deal of the false hair worn
by the ladies' is cut from the head oil
convicts.
An army of black crickets, one mile
wide, is marching across Nevada.
A lady school teacher in Dayton
Ohio, receives $1,000 salary.
Alexander II. Stephens now weigh.
seventy.six pounds.