The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-03-31
A Little Of Everything.

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4 who tasted IT,
An Ohio uan wants 10 bet on lady Congress
men within three years.
South Carolina fruit trees have suffered by
| the recent frOsts.
New Orleans strect-car drivers rush their
mules at gallop over old ladies and children.
Manchester, n. H., prohibits smoking on
| Sunday.
A Frenchman is trying to lease Pompeii for
| hotel and theatre.
The Jefferson Davis capture reward Of $780,.
| 600 Is to be paid to 23T persons.
| Minnesota coolly tells of ice thirty three in
ches thick aud clear enough to read paper
through.
San Franciscan blew ont his brains the
other day because his wife didn't want d.
! yorce.
The last sca-serpent resembles can immense
balloon" Somebody should let the gas out Of
II.
4 white girl in Texas was caught trying to
be married to n dark affinity on license as a
frcedwomau.
A Missourinn didn't like his father. in-law
well enough to live any longer, and has poison
ed himself
Miss Hightake, the cnlorcd lady candidate
for State Librarian of Mississippi. isn't proud,
but Hobbies in person among the white Radicals
The punishment in st. Louis for splitting a
ehild's back with Ratchet, is two years i'm
prisonmont.
A South Carolina freedman, who sold two of
his neighbours mules, shot the owner for re-
monstrating.
A lady temperance speaker in Buffalo has
discovered the primary root Of all evil. 1t is
in allowing children to eat mustard
An Oregon town couldn't sec the sun for two
hours the other day, while flock Of crows was
flying over.
A Pennsylvania minister is suing some late
parishioncrs for SANDER, just for asserting that
be had eloped with another mans wife.
4 mad Texas bull made more Of = sensation
IN the streets { Louisville, st. Patrick's day,
than the procession.
81. Louis man who quarrclled with his
landlord has committed the sad mistake OF kill
ing an innocent German in the dark.
Trentonian persisted in dying with his
boots on. Since then the mourners have found
Sl7 600 in them.
A black loyalist in Savannah plays dead on
the sidewalk, while an accomplicc calls out a
good Samaritan and goes through his store.
New Orleans woman escaped n commit
ment for drunkenness by informing the court
that she had the smallpox.
An English paper compares Revcls In the
Senate to israel escaped from Egypt But Mo-
SEES didn't have any carpetbag or frank.
pair of villains lately tried to rob aud kill
farmer near Albany. Butler should have
New York reconstructed.
a rural New York minister prays for the
Legislature, which be thinks disposed to re
pcal even tue ten commandments
A Spanish sailor at New Orleans neatly dis
posed of an enemy by hiring three men to stab
and throw him overheard.
\ Norfolk lad set TO amuse n baby, got re-
volver and slot himself through the heart
The infant was much amused.
Two Troy burglars were induced to forego
the pleasure Of Sunday evening call, by a
revolver and lady who knew how to use it,
The n. \. Tribune prOn0uncvs ex.Collector
Bailey " u man of simple habits and blamcless
liic." How much did he steal? Only 81 ,0O0,-
600.
A colored legislator in South Carolina named
Chestnut is proving himself a hard nut for
Nhitemore to smash, exposing him before
every meeting he addresses.
a Philadclphian was rebuked for wanting
another drink in a bar-room, when he had
enough before, by being beaten 10 death, the
other night
A lady is in trouble at New Orleans for pad
ding her clothing with five boxes of cigars and
lot Of jeles, when she landed from Havana
amer.
Chicago court was cnliyencd the other
afternoon by mill between an attorney and
constable To decide whether or not the former
told the truth in calling the latter thief.
=" Severely punished is what they call it in
Chicago when man is beaten to jelly, robbed
room.
The crowd Of idle negroes in every Southern
town is increasing, notwithstanding planters
offer $50 month and everything found for
hands.
Consumption, filth and shiftlessness are Kill
ling of the Tennessee negroes bv hundreds
Even another reconstruction Of the State won't
save them.
George Washington told A lie at Wilmington
the other day, when he got Benjaman Franklin
Imprisoned for stealing. They are men and
brothers,
t.,,., F.. at...---, - =, a,
and duc-blls out here are written on parch-
ment, to prevent them from wearing out by
carrying, as that Is all they are good for; they
can't be collected"
An old lady in Germantown is so full orsym-
rathy that every time her ducks take bath
in the gutter she dries their feet by the fire to
keep them from catching cold.
Richmond boy wanted to- play William Tell
the other day, and as his playmate would not
let him use his hat for a target, used his head
instead. William won't Tell, for he's dead
A sable sovereign Of Texas. when reproved
FOR his poygamy replied "Why, hi! hazn't
got but four nendments yet, and dc law open
| ~ lows dc colored man liteenl
A colored preacher in Virginia thus scttlcs
the reputation question ;--"Ef q man got de
money den he orter pays Of he aln't got de
money, den ho orient TO pay. Oats do way |
looks at it,"
The two browning elements Of the prosperity
OF the Northwest are railroads aud immigra-
| ton; the latter VIM. b. Ogden estimates that
100000 emigrauts who annually 90 to the
| Northwest carry there 50, 600 in money,
most Of which they spend within six months.
1t IS asserted that there never was better
IS stand" Of wheat 10 North Georgia and Ala
hama at this season Of the year then there Is
| now. There was fully the usual amount put in
last fall the ground was, as a general thing,
better prepared than has been customary in
| former years, and there is every reason to
hope for good crop at the next harvest,
\ bearded girl has made her appearance
at Glad Spring depot, Washington county, Va
| She is four years old, and has a moustache and
whiskers, the hair upon the forehead extending
to the eyebrows. Very heavy hair, exceedingly
black, extends below the shoulders. The child
is sprightly, with fully developed limbs and
| well-formed body. The arms, shoulders and
back are covered with soft, downy hair.
\ matchmaker in Meriden, Ct, has on exhi.
bition in his shop an old watch, with only
an hour hand and common catgut for wind
| ing-ehain. II has brass case, but was origin
| ally enclosed In a huge tortoise she'll The
| inscription on the watch is "W. Lee, No. 2,
DESIGNATING it 2l2 years old, undoubtedly
the oldest running watch in America Ii keeps
| week.
| The Bowdoin Bank robbers arc still negotiat-
| ing for their deliyerence from the Maine State
Prison Mt Iholnaston. They have offered TO re-
store so, OgO OF the stolen nancy they can be
released The robbers offer SIS O6O to deiray the
expenses Of circulating the petition, and one (
them agrees to give heavy bonds for his return
to prison il the officials will allow bin to be
absent three days, so as to obtain the hidden
L treasure.
! Thomas d. Carr was executed as St. Glars
VILE, Ohio, last week, for the murder Of Miss
Louisa Fox, his ailianced over a year ago
| The murder was one of peculiar atrocity. If
Carr may be believed, he was one of the great
| estmurderers of his time. lie boosted OF hay-
ing perpetrated fourteen cold blooded muir
ders, and Of having attempted five others.
Being so abandoned william, 1t is quite proba-
Bile that be was vain liar likewise
a cpmpany has been formed 10 renoYer the