The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-12-08

moneyis wasted there annually. $780,.
900, he says, is given to political foyor-
ties, 100000 employed to make voters,
and 100000 squandered or thrown
away in various ways, and for the bene-
fit Of private interests.
The pension rolls Of the War De,
partmcnt contain the names Of twelve
widows Of revolutionary soldiers, each
over one hundred years Of age. or
these relics of the Revelation two have
reached the ripe age Of III years !;
another, a resident of Ohio, counts nine
years over a century, aud her son is u
promising lad Of 81.
a iine looking aud well dressed lady,
apparently about thirty.fye years Of
age, committed suicide on Sunday of
last week, at Niagara Falls, by jumping
from the Goat Island bridge She was
registered at the hotel as Mrs Hill,
from Chicago.
Fourteen vacancies in the Legisla.
ture Of Mississippi ARE to be filed By
special election, to be held on the 10Th
of December, They include three seats
in the State Senate, one being that
vacated by United States Senator
Revols.
Otto Goldschmidt, Jenny Lind's hus
band, having squandered his wiie's
fortune, the nightingale is So reduced
as to be compelled 10 teach music for a
living. The Unmatched pair have sep.
arated by mutual consent, and the
spendthriit must now shift for himself.
Street cars, moved by compressed air,
are running i'll Chicago. At the trial
trip on Saturday, one Of them went
three miles and quarter in thirty
minutes, with an initial pressure OF Que
hundred and twenty-five pounds to the
square ineh
The annual Convention Of the friends
Of Sunday Schools throughout Mary.
land and the District Of Columbia
(wi,hout denomnational distinction)
assembled in Baltimore on Tuesday
9th instant
The New York Evening Pdst, Repub
lican, aud the New York Uord, pro.
fessedly Democratic, are iudastriously
engaged in laying the foundation for a
new party, on the Que idea of Reform
in the Revenue laws.
Samuel Hiues, of Maysyille, Ne, has
raised from two acres the past season
400 bushels of potatoes, 200 pumpkins,
100 squashes, 80 bushels of corn on the
ear, % bushels Of bcets, aud 5 barrels
Of cucumbers.
5. Is. Vance was Tuesday elected
United States Senator from North Car
DINA to fill the seat which will be vacat.
ed by the retirement OF lIoa. j G,
Abbott on the fourth Of March ensuing
This is a Democratic gain.
Ga the 18th inst. the water 10 the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal will b,
withdrawn. On the goth of Deeembel
it is intended to commence the usna
winter repairs.
The belts Of tho famous grain eleya
tors in Detroit are each 240 feet lon i.
BY 80 inches wide, and cost IS, 0Ot
apiece. 1t took the hides of l.2OC
cattle to make the set.
Among $4,000 worth of weddin.
presents lately given to a New Yorl
, bride was gold coffee pot costing 81,
600. A house, diamonds, laces, etc
4 made up the rest of the sum.
|, The North German Loyds steame
!. Union, from New York for Bremen
e stranded near Peterhead, on tho coas
of Scotland, on Sunday. The passeug
ers wers all saved.
The resignation Of General De Roda
: as Captain General Of Cuba, has bee
: accepted by the home Government
:, Valmazda will take his place for III
: present.
= Ten or twelve full blooded Indian
/ have applied for admission to Higl
i land University, Kansas, with vie
i to enter the Presbyterian ministry.
:, A London desI atch to the N Y 81
,r says George Francis Train has bee
= missing for 1--WE days. There are feal
Of his assassination.
The managers of the Home +
10 Friendless Children on the EssteI
i. Shore, intend TO open that Institute,
on the LIST Of January, 1871.
4 Farmers in the ncighborhood ofritu
Ii vile, Pa, report the woods unusual
ia full Of wild game this season. The dc
mn are very fat.
TO The outgoings OF the p. o. Depa
"a ment, the 7. NJ G reports exceed, Il
OF year, the iucomings, by the large su
,e. Of 81 ,000,0O
An Indiana grand jury has been G
forcing the Sunday law by indictil
ty women for cooking and sewing on BIZ
en- tons upon the Sabbath
a.. Fully 1000 Of the 3.000 residents
of Hampden Conn, have been sick wi
nc the malarioqs fever since the LIST
ms July,
he Not for moro than twenty years
such a wet and Indictment season as t
!. present been experienced in Austral
~, Moral Massachusetts, has an unlinis
., ed business list of l 500 applications
ne divorce before her Supreme Court
~ There will be City three Sundays
lS7l--the year beginning and endi
lst on Sunday
be General BeauregaTd on the Both 10
sailed from New York for France.