The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-04-14
Items of News.

\ negro was working beneath bank
of dirt; the dirt broke of, fell on him,
aud crushed him. Ills heart was shot
out from his body, aud thrown TO
distance Of G2 feet (by measure) from
him. His lungs and liver were scat
tered between him and his heart, and
his body was completely crushed by the
dirt. When the dirt was thrown off, it
was found that he was broken all TO
pieces. His chest and his stomach
were riltod, aud his legs were shapcless
masses. If bombshell had exploded
between his ribs his heart aud entrails
could not have been thrown further.
The laws of China were made 1000
years ago, and have undergone but little
change. One of them requires that all
persons must truthfully represent their
profession, and that generation after
generation they must not change or alter
it. Another exempts all literary and
religious institutions from taxation, and
another provides that the possessor of
land shall cultivate it under pain or
forfeiture. In this last law we see
nothing very barbarous.
An iron ore is said to have been dis.
covered in York county, Pa, which has
the peculiar power of transforming pig
iron into good steel by simple mixture
Of the two in pudding furnace The
ore is soft and friabe in tho bed, so
much so that it can be mined with the
spade. but upon exposure to the atinos.
phere it soon hardens. Professor Les
ley, who has examined the ore bed.
estimates the contents us seventeen
millions tons.
The RsUolutioR charges that seventy
courtesans we're taken to Washington
to influence Legislation upon the Pacific
Railroad subsidy, aud that $4,000
were recently divided among the houses
of iIlfame in Washington, who were to
cocrce, under penalty of exposure, the
support by their Congressional patron
of bill providing for Indian appropri.
ations.
The explosion of boiler at the Ches-
peaks Sugar Refinery Baltimore, on Sat
urday killed seven men and wounded us
many more. The Evidence appears to
throw the responsibility upon the engi
neer of the establishment, cx perts testify.
ing that the iron used in the boilers was Of
fair quality, aud that the explosion was
caused on account of insufficient water
therein
A story is told that Mr.. Robert A.
Shepard, of Walton county, Georgia,
killed sheep last fall, took Of the skin
and sheared it. In the course of few
months heavy coat of wool presented
itself, which he sheared off aud now he
says it is ready to shear again, there ap.
pcaring to be as much as he got at any
previous shearing.
Westerly, r. l., has "two Sundays
come together" Nearly half the popuia.
ton are Seventh Day Baptists, and on
Saturdays half Of the mills, shops, and
other places Of business are closed, and
half Of the churches are filed with wor.
shippers, who on Sunday resume their
secular occupations, while their neigh.
bors take religion and rest.
A wealthy farmer of St. Paris, Ohio,
committed suicide on the 18th ult. No
reason for the rash act is given; but a
paper containing one of Mr. Greeley's
confessions Of "What | Know About
Farming" was found tightly clasped IN
his right hand. No wonder.
The workmcn engaged in the demo.
lition Of the old hotel on the corner of
Third avenue and both street. New
York, found diamond pin in rat.hole,
and between the castings an old wallet
containing coin and papers to the value
ofS75 900
George W. Buck, President of the
Waverly National Bank of New York,
has received a proposition from the |
burglars, Offering to return the bonds |
stolen at the robbery on the receipt of
forty cents on TIE dollar. The propo. |
sltion comes from New York.
John Saxton is said to be the Oldest
editor in the United States, having
published the Canton (Ohio) Repository |
Tor hity'hve consecutive years. His
story is remarkable in tn It he has never
been absest whole day from his Office
in all that time.
There are 10000 windmills in Hol-
land at the present day, for the simple
purpose OF drainage. They are almost
OF colossal size, each lifting from TO-.
600, 1000 to 50,000,0 900 gallons of water
every tweuty.four hours.
A prosperous revival in Wisconsin
town was demoralized and broken up by
the conversion of two lawyers aud
broker. The good people couldn't stand
all that at once.
"A Boston paper says that there are
very few railroads in New England
whose receipts are not now from 100 To
QUO per cent in excess of the original
estimates.
4 Cincinnati circus rider undertook
to go around the ring 200 times the
other day, standing on his head. His
brains all ran down into hls skull and
killed him.
An English collier kept a key of
powder under his bed, and the other
day went after some, smoking a pipe.
When he went out he took the roof
along with him.
A Chinese cigar. maker at San Fran.
CISCO has gone to the insane asylum