The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-07-28
Items of News.

/ Americans for the use Of our Govern
ment We allude to the immense iron.
plated ram ltochambeau, more familiar
to our readers as the Duuderberg. This
marine monster is three hundred aud sew.
enty,eight feet long, seyenty-thrce feet
beam and thirty feet deep, carrying
an armament Of eight liftecn.inc guns.
! As - ram" the ROchambcau will prove
fcarlully destructive, il being calculated
By experts that when collidog alta speed
Of ten kuots an hour she would deliver
a blow equal to cannon ball Of one
thousand pounds weight hurled with
propulsive force Of sixteen hundred feet
a second. This mighty craft crossed
the Atlantic from New York to Cher.
bourg in fourteen days, frequently
steaming at the rate Of fifteen knots an
hour.
California Is largely cultiyatng, be.
sides the grape, oranges, lines, citrons,
tss, aud walnuts In Lower California
there are now 1000 orange trees in
bearing, They yield from 600 to 1900
oranges to the tree, depending on its
age About 40 trees stand on an acre,
which commence producing in years
from the seed For good oranges the
price is $50 per 1000 Lemons, lines
aud citron yield crops averaged to be
worth 81 900 an acre. 1t takes years
to get the trees in condition TO bear,
however English walnuts are raised
in plenty. and at 25c per pound A
large tree will give 300 pounds of
nuts The hgs are plentiful, but are
not Of good quality.
The latest estimates of the Arricu
turul Department indicate that the
wheat crop will fall short Of that of
1869 by IS O00, 600 bushels. The corn
crop is largely above an average; while
the cotton crop will amount to not less
than $500 900 bales, and with lone
season but little short Of 1000 900
bales, With ample crops aud high
prices, resulting from the prevalence of
a war in Europe, the farmers will have
little cause for complaint.
Ga opening box Cur of train for
Bostol, at Windsor, VI, it was found
that Of one hundred and twenty five
lambs confined therein, aud on the way
to market, only four were alive. Onc
hundred aud twenry.onc lImbs crowded
iuto tight car, in a hot day, had been
cruelty smothcrcd to death.
A despatch from London, july %.
says details Of the massacre of foreign.
crs at Pckln have been received The
first accounts did not oxargcratc the
horrors OF the affair Neither are nor
sex was spared, and some persons
were burned TO death in tho buildings
destroyed.
The new French Minister at Wash.
inGtou, NJ. Provost Parado, committed
suicide at his residence in that city. on
the 10Th instant, by shooting himself
through the heart with pistol. lie
had been at Washington but few DAYS
when he committed the act.
A Milwaukee German moving an old
table which he bought at auction. last
week, Knocked of Il leg which proved to
be hollow and to contain $500 in cold
This has led to the destruction of all
the old furniture 10 Milwaukee auctions
stores.
1t takes seventeen seconds to send a
written message through a pneumatic
tube from London to a point IG0 miles
distant. This beats steam. aud is not
behind electricity. Bags of heavy mail
matter are sent three miles in two
seconds.
France lost 10000 men during the
Crimean struggle. The Italian cam.
paigns carried off 10000 more Of Napo.
Icons braves, while 81, 600 Frenchmcn
were sacrificed in the Chinese aud Mex.
lean vars
Postmaster General Crcswoll has
made arrangements for forwarding the
mails three times week to Europe. one
service less than at present, Letters to
any part of Germany should be address.
sed via England
A revenue assessor in Ohio, asking
the usual questions, inquired, "Did
your wife have any income last year p
Yes" replied the assessed, "she had
tvips-both girls"
or the 100, 900, more or less. Chinese
people in this country at the present
time, about 5000 only are womea.
Those Of the males who have made up
their minds to remain here for good want
white wives.
Mrs Sarah A. Graut, residing in
Andover, Mass. died suddenly on Fri.
day afternoon, from the sting Of a bee.
Immediately after she was stung she
lay down on lounge, saying, IL am
dead" and going in commissions, died
in about two hours aIterward
During the last six months there
have been manufactured and shipped
from Lynn 6.972, $50 pairs Of shoes
valued at over $40, 900, 000-the largest
hall years business ever done in that
city
A young lady strolling through the
woods in Jersey was hung up by the
chignon to limb, aud had to wait two
hours for passer by to cxtricate her.
After hepassage ofatornado through
St. Clair county, Illinois, last week birds
were found minglod and torn, and a
dove was picked up dead, with scarce a
feather remaining on it.
New York papers say that y. T.
Sewart has made round million by the
rise in gold, which be bought when
down to the lowest figures, some fifteen
days since.
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