The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-03-10
Items of News.

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to-day aud brings news Of the destruc-
ton OF the U. S. Steamer Oneida, which
left Yokohama on the 23d of January.
homeward bound, about two hours
after leaving port, by being run into
by the Bombay, an English Steamer, dur
ing fog. The Oneida was cut almost
in half and sunk in less than five min.
utes. The officers and men of the
Oneida numbered l7G only filty.six of
whom, including DR.. Sudders and two
junior officers, survived the disaster.
Great earelcssness is attributed to the
officers Of the Bombay, and even bar
barity, as they proceeded without stop.
ping to reader any assistance. The
same dispatch states that the steamer
Colorado brings intelligence Of the total
loss Of the steamer Golden City on the
I'D OF February, near Cape st. LozOro,
Her passengers, crew, baggage aud
treasure were saved, and brought back
by the Colorado, The ship was total
wreck, having broken in two Just for.
ward Of the smoke stack and abaft the
paddle boxes, and was rapidly going to
pieces. She went ashore at I O'Clock
in the morning in a dense fo=. The
sea was very smooth at the time, aud
providentially remained so for several
hours after she struck.
Tho National Bank of New Canaan,
Connecticut, was robbed on Thursday
night by three New York burglars, who
entered the bank about midnight, gagged
aud bound the Waterman, and went to
work to drillinto the safe. They did not
succeed in getting in a blast until five
O'Clock in the morning. When they
touched it of, the charge was so heavy
that it not only blew open the safe, but
nearly destroyed the building The
thieves were frightened aud did not
wait to profit by their work. \ large
amount of money and securities was OK
posed by the explosion, but only about
one thousand dollars was carried away.
OF S9l6,000,000 of gold which the
United States Mint has coined since
1892, SSH, 100000 have been issued
since 1850; out of $3.50 900, 900 of
gold issued by the British mint since
1908, ell5,000 have been coined since
1850; since 1926 the French mint has
coined l0,S0O, 900, 600 francs, $500.
100000 of which have been issued
since 1850; since 1864 Russia has
coined GIG, 100000 roubles in gold, Of
which $50, 100000 have been issued
since 1850.
More revolving deprayity seems to be
exposed during the present period than
was ever manifested among civilized
people at any previous time, A woman
has been arrested in Detroit charged
by her son with having made repeated
attempts to poison her mother TO death
with arsenic, and an investigation un.
enrthed facts which strongly tend to
show that she has made way, after the
like fashion, with two husbands, Que of
them the father of the boy who now
places her at the bar Of justice.
The Philadelphia cemetery contains
seven graves side by side, in which re.
pose the lifcless remains of man and
his six wives. When the first wife
died the third was three years old, and
the filth an infant of twelve mouths.
while the last wife was not born until
the year following the death of the
first.
At Elkhart, lndiasa, last week Mrs.
Mcguire, in drunken frenzy, threw
lighted Kerosene lamp at her husband.
The lamp exploded, sitting FIRE to the
house and the husbands clothing. The
house and its contents were DESTROYED.
and Mcguire was burned to death.
The Northern Railway elevator, at
Toronto, Canada, containing about l25,-
600 bushels Of grain andlG,000 barrels
Of -four, was destroyed BY FIRE last week.
The loss is estimated at two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
The most famous ruin 10 England
just now, is the young Duke of Hamil.
ton, who has squandered fortune of
two hundred thousand dollars year,
aud hos contracted, or more properly
expanded, debts to the amount of a half
million more.
The Reading Edyie Gays That the
country prison OF Lancaster is u rival of
Andersonville, that the prisoners urc
naked, dirty aud freezing, and the in
stitutlon generally in wretched COZ
dition, This, it will be remembered, is
u Radical schebang.
Illinois has produced new swindlc.
1t is a receipt for mixing two pounds
OF batter from one. The agent" sells
the formula for $3.50, aud as it requires
eighteen days to prepare it, he is safely
out oil the way before the fraud is
discovered.
Captain Ward, of the royal navy,
states that the estimated cost of the
hull Of the Monarch, excluding the fit.
tings, is e300, 900, and the actual cost
OF the engines, including fittings EGG.
600 sterling.
A farmer in Indiana county, Pa,
while thrcshing one day last week,
killed ono hundred aud twenty-five
rats IN his barn. 1t was pretty good
day for rafting.
The total treasure shipments since
January LIST from San Francisco, were
sI,do0,OOO ofwhich amount So, 500 900
was sent to New York over land
The first coin made in the Philadelphia
Mint was copper cent in 1890. The
hrst silver dollar was made in 1894,
aud the first gold eagle in 1895.
a prize fight for the light weight
championship is to take place in three
months between Bill Edwards and Bar.