The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-05-12
Items of News.

Governor Bowie has appointed the
following gentleman us State school
commissioners Geo. IL Carmau, Of
Baltimore county John w. Page, of
Frederick w j Aydeloue, OF Wor.
cester, and Dr. Thomas Carrico, of
Charles. These gentlemen, with the
principal of the State Normal School,
constitute the board of State school com.
missioners, aud have the supervision of
the public school interests of the State,
la marrying young Irish girl to a
smart mulatto, in the presence of
number of the diguitaries OF Western
town, Justice Garrett said: "In the
name of the Great Jehovah, the Cont
mental Congress aud the Fifteenth
amendment, | pronounce you husband
and wife"
A Newark man is getting very suspi.
cious because his wife has several times
lately, asked him why he didu't apply
for work at that nitro glyccrine factory
which had exploded twice lately. lie
wants divorce.
A tremendous hail storm occurred in
Philadelphia Sunday afternoon, stones
seven inches in circumference falling
and causing the wreck of thousands Of
windows. The loss is said to be very
heavy.
Miss Matte johnson, whose name
attained an unpleasant notoriety in con.
Junction with that OF Rev. Horace Cook
has married respectable young man in
New York.
Augusta Lehman, pretty child of
foug years, is astounding Zurich by her
repetition on the piano of any tune she
happens to hear, with singular taste and
rarely mistake
Mr.. Plate, of Cincinnati, ordered
mau out of his shop one ming recent
ly. The man had a knife, and Mr.
Plate has been measured for coffin
plate.
The GdrRen Journal, an Illinois news
paper, regularly appears with three
blank columns, which are headed thus
Special Notice These columns are
reserved for those merchants who ought
toadvertise."
The receipts of cotton at Galveston
now exceed the estimates of many for
the whole year, being 1873 bales.
The stock on hand is now little over
30 900 bales.
Charter elections were held ia Peru
Columbus and Madison, Indiana, on the
Sd inst, which resulted ia favor of the
democrats, although the colorcd men
voted solidly for the radicals.
A Maine burglar in prison rcoentlJ
gained possession Of a hoop skirt, and
made the steel springs into saws, with
which he cut the bars OF his cell win.
dow.
Seven car loads ofeggs passed through
Toledo one day last week The ship.
ment contained one million two hundred
aud sixty thousand eggs.
Mr.. Ii. J, kiuzel ofKnox CO., Tenn.
has in his possession white mouse with
red ears, which he plowed up in field
few days ago.
Getting drunk aud sleeping at an open
third story window is not conclusive to
longevity in St Louis. II has Just Kill.
led n man.
One hundred newspapers have started
and failed in Chicago, aud 500, 900 900
have been sunk in journalistic failures
in New York
" No cards, no cake, no company,
nobody's business" is appended to the
marriage notice Of a young couple in
Kansas City, Mo.
An ungainly, deformed beggar in
New Orleans is worth $4,000 in real
estate aud runs stock brokerage bust.
ness.
An Arizona miner, wounded by Ind.
ans, shot himself dead to escape the
pain he suffered
Two improved needle, guns are on
trial IN Germany, which each FIRE from
fifteen to twenty shots u minute.
A long autograph letter from George
Washington on agricultural mater was
recently sold in London for Sl75.
England has seventy one daily news.
papers, Ireland has fourteen, Scotland
eleven aud Wales two.