The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-07-21
Items of News,

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that meat will, in the course of 10 long
period Of time, be rarity among our
poor, aud that our working classes will
be reduced to fare similar to that to
which their fellows il the cid countries
are restricted This because the stock
raising states of Ohio, Indiana and Ill.
inois are beginning to fail in their cat,
Ito resources, and because the pastoral
region is ceUstaptly roeeding Westward,
and we shall therefore be compelled to
look beyond even Texas, Arkansas,
Missouri Iowa and Minnesota for the
much coveted but high priced beeisteak.
Stock raising is, in consequence, recon.
mended to the practical attention of far
mers IN all sections orthe country.
New Orleans is Just now greatly ex.
cited over the sudden disappearance of
a white infant child belonging to Mr..
Digby, who is believed to have been
stolen by a negro woman for the purpose
of sacrifice on a voudou altar. Constant
and unremitting search has been made
without success, Notwithstanding heavy
rewards have been offered for the re-
covery of the child. No one apr ears to
feel authorized to say it was stolen for
saerllical purposes, yet hoLsands bclie2e
such was the cause Of its abduction,
The annual ceremonies ofthe believers
int, African superstition Of voudouism
and the celebration of the Fetish rights
generally, were duly observed in Louisi.
ana, on st, johns day, at secluded
spot on the shore Of Lake Ponchartrain
where numerous shantlcs were construct.
ed, with principal one in the centre,
under cover Of which the voudou orgies
were performed. The rites this year
were not characterized by such extrava.
giant and cruel performances as on for.
mer occasions.
The oil regions of Pennsylvania ap.
pear to eujoy the first droppings of the
millennium. The Young Mems Chris.
tian Association Of Warren, town OF
$500 inhabitants in that pious place,
eau liud no exercise for their Christian
zeal. The Jail is empty, nobody will
accept aims, and there are no grog.
shops or other haunts ofiniquity in the
town.
Priscilla JiIlson, the young girl who
took dose of corrosive sublimate at
Port Jervis, New Jersey, few days
ago, to end her life, died at the residence
Of her father She suffered untold ago.
ny, but refused all medical aid, stating
that she was bound to die, aud begged
Of the physicians to give her an addi.
tional dose.
a German statistical writer remarks
that the invention ofthescwing machine
has enabled one woman to sew as much
as hundred could sew by hand cen.
fury ago; but, lie continues, one woman
now demands us much clothing as a
a hundred did a century ago-so that
matters are not much changed after
all.
n Mobile paper says that the captain
Of a boat called the Nyauza has chal.
lenged the owners OF the Lee, which
won the recent race on the Mississippi
to trial of specd-a single dash trip
up the Alabama river stakesa matter
OF no consequencc-any thing up to
100000
A lady at fair in Springfield, Ohio
the other day, saw what she took to be
a very nice piece of candy, and quietly
put it in her mouth. 1t proved to be a
miniature bomb shell, aud exploded
decorating her mouth and shattering her
teeth IN an exceedingly unpleasant man.
ner.
On Saturday the counsel on the part
of the State of Maryland entered suit
in the Court of Appeals to recover from
the Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad $3.50.
GOD, due on account Of the capitation
tax on the Washington Branch for the
first six months of the present year.
A dispatch from Constantinoplc on
the 18th inst. says another destructive
fire occurred here on Monday. 1t ragged
over nine hours. Fifteen bundled
houses, mainly of the poorer class, were
consumed.
In Fond du Lac, last week, there was
a kerosene horror, railroad slaughter
four sunstrokes, man killed by horse
a boy drowned in barrel of soft soap
and another one disintegrated by eating
glass.
Nine American citizens have been
executed in Cuba during the pending
war, forty have been imprisoned aud the
property of twcnty,one others has been
confscated or enlarged.
New York salouisls, arrested for keep
ing open Sunday, now claim to open
Just to feed the canaries" Those
canaries are five feet odd inches high
and mostly take whiskey.
A shoddy dame in northern New
York, late domestic, in ordering sill
yer ware, desired the astonished clerk
to have her "entrails, b. NJ, engraved
on each piece"
n. Rev. Professor at Amherst, woke
up drowsy audience on recent Sun
day By putting them through the exer.
else of singing hymn in the middle o.
his sermon.
A CharlestoUn gentleman applied at {
police station to have wound in hi.
throat sewed up, which resulted from
his pIomenadiug with another man.
wife.
| One of the sons of Count Bismarck
who was serving in the Prussian navy
recently committed suicide at San Fran
cisco by swallowing sulphuric acid.
At ar recent female college commence
| ment in Ohio ono ,,o..s 4,