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

The most graphic accounts of the
great fire ut Constantinople fail to con.
vey an idea of its horrors aud destruc,
tiylncss. More than 900 houses were
destroyed, aud property to the value Of
$40, 900, 900 was sacrificed More than
one thousand depd bodies have been
recovered, and there are still 400
missing persons unaecounted for. Sew.
Gu fire companies, engines and men,
persisted in the haines they endeayored
to subdue. The horrible incidents are
too numerous to detail Strangest of
all is the fact that the fire thus destruc-
tive ragged but few hours, and spread
with such rapidity that buildings were
swept away in an instant, aud with an
explosion likethat of cannon Such
awIulIy destructive fires are, fortunate
IT, hardly possible in American cities,
with their broad avenues, brick bull.
dlngs, aud superior fire engines
A sale Thoroughbred ycarliug colts
recently took place at Middle Park,
England, when fifty youngsters"
brought the aggregate sum of s92 ops,
or an average Of 81 go each The
highest priced animal brought $4,000,
and the prices Of the eight most valua-
bic ranged from $4,000 to BOO.
Another sale Of seven ycarlings brought
$1,000, or 1890 on the average.
The highest priced animal brought 81
$50. In contrast with the value Of
horses raised by skilllul breeders men-
ton is made Of the annual sales of year.
Iings from the horse farm ofQuecn Vic.
toril, where the animals, from their uu.
attractive appearance, called "Roynl
rats" could hardly be disposed OF at
very low prices.
Alligltors are becoming reconstruct.
ed like everything else in the South,
Tor planter near Midway, South Caro-.
lina. about seventy miles from Augusta,
has cultivated his entire farm this year,
so far us pl0ughing is concerned, with
an alligator. The animal is an unusu.
ally large oue--weighs three uudrci
and fifty pounds-and is perfectly do.
ellie and domeSleated. He is said to
work splendidly in plough harness, and
is far superior to mules or horses
Those who wish to believe this story
can do SO.
kilograms from China, rio London,
state that terrible massacre Of French
aud Russian residents of Pekin took
place on the twenty first OF June.
Hatred of foreigners, particularly the
French, is assigned as the cause of the
butchery. The French Consul and his
Secretary Of Legation, with several
priests and Sisters Of Mercy, were among
the victims, The Roman Catholic
Cathedral was S,Srned, aud other out.
RACES were committed.
In the Missouri Bottoms, opposite,
Cairo, Mr.. William Rodney raised a
crop Of corn that will do to talk about.
On eight acres he produced. ,0jD bush.
els. This is equal to 1911 bushels to
the acre Talk about the valleys Of the
Nile and the Amazon, the Scoto and
the Miami They are u barren waste
compared with our Missouri bottoms.
In the City Court of Baltimore. Fri.
day, John Burk obtained a verdict of
$4,000 in his favor for the killing of
of his son, aged twelve years, by the ears
of the Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad,
near Leicester, Nd, on the 4th of April,
1859. The counsel for the Company
have made a motion for new trial.
The tight.rope performance of wo.
man who strapped m infant to her back
aud made the audience at a London
amphithoatre shudder, attracted the at
tcntion Of the House of Commons, and
after that the Police. Then the per-
Torrance ceased.
Mrs Barnes, of Indiana, was drivingin.
to town for divorce, last week, when the
horse ran away, and her husband had
TO pay her funeral expenses. He says
it is lust his luck. Two hours more
and she would have been her own
cashier"
An Irish girl at Erie a day or two
since, caught another girl on the side
walk who had on hoopskirt and
white skirt stolen from the party of the
first part, and compelled her to TAX
them off and surrender them, then and
there.
At the trot at Fashion Course on H.
dependence Day, the field consisted of
five Of the finest horses in the country.
Lady Thorn won the trot, beating
George Palmer, George Wilkes, Lucy
and American Girl. The winners time
was 2.23l, 2.23, 224i.
The Mormons of Utah have turned
their attention to the production of
gloves that rival those of Paris in deli.
cacy aud workmanship. The gloves are
made from genuine kid, raised in the
vicinity Of Salt Lake.
The anti.Chinese feeling in North
Adams, Massachusetts, is so strong that
an American employed to teach the
newly arrived Chinese the language has
been attacked with volleys of stones.
Persons who prefer stale bread can
have their taste gratified by sending to
Pompeii, where they have oaves which
were baked over eighteen hundred years
ago.
The practice of Kentucky distillery
hands of bathing after working hours
in the watts of whskey, not only refresh.
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