The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-12-22
Items of News.

Mrs. llama, living Wos' VI -
Massachusetts. died after a lingering
illness, occasioned by cancer, 10 the
stomach Four or five hours ailer her
death, when she had been properly land
out, the family, who were in an adloln
ing room, heard noise like the falling
OF some heavy body on the floor, and
hurrying into the room in which the
deceased lay, they were horrlhed to
discover that the gases which had been
accommodating in her stomach, finding
no outlet, had burst with report that
actually Jared the whole house. a dark
fluid, bearing no resemblance to blood,
was oozing from her mouth aud nose.
John ". Garrett, Esq, has been
unanimously re elected President OF the
Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad Company
Mr.. Garrett proposes that ship canal
be constructed 10 unite the waters oil
the Upper Chesapeake and thos' OF the
Delaware Bay, and states that the econ
omy of time that eau be effected b. this
canal makes the enterprise one OF Ma
tionai importance.
They are now making a! Colts laeto'
ry new patent lock for tho Unite !
States Mail bags. When fastened
numbered plate of glass covers the key.
hole, and this glass has to be broken
before the bag can be unlocked or the
lock tempered with. Ii is said to be
the most complete lock ever invented.
Five thousand Of them have been order
ed by the Postoiiice Department.
The big grape vine at Santa Barbara,
Cal, is five feet two inches in eircum
ference where tho main trunk branches
aud the arbcr which il covers is go feet
by CD. At these limits, the branches
are three inches 10 diameter, aud are
kept trimmed to prevent its spreading
over more grolnd
1t is stated that there were thirty
nine known victims to lynch law in the
United States for the year ending De.
tobpr 81, 1870 OF these, ten were col
ored, fifteen suffered for murder, nine
for rape, niue for robbery, one for mu
tilation Of child, aud five Tor assaults
aud battery,
A French bird clock is exhibiting in
Hartford, which is surrounded by vine
10 which humming bird flutters, and
goes from branch TO branch Another
bird drinks from u spring, and the wa.
ter from miniature fall is constantly
moving A musical box is attached and
plays popular airs.
The proposition to abolish the Offices
of Admiral aud Vice Admiral is up in
the Senate again This looks as il Por.
ter may yet fail Of the rank he coycts,
BY the way, it is sail that ex Secretary
Boric reeouciled the Presdentto Porter,
Jacob Casabccr, Of Somerset, n II,
boiled 900 gallons OF apple butter
made between $500 aud 1000 gallons
OF cider vinegar, sold about 600 bushels
of apples aud raised 400 bushels Of
potatoes
New England makes cartridges, and
is now heavily employed in furnishing
the belligcrents of Europe with that ar.
ticle. 0no Connecticut maker has
negro girls constructing them by the
million.
The navigation Of the Hudson river
is practically closed. The cold weather
Of the past few days has filed the river
With floating ice. The Albany steam .
boats ceased running on Saturday.
The blind staggers is making sad
havoc among the horses 10 Talbot
county, Nd, many of the farmers
having lost valuable animals by this
disease
The Philadelphia Commercial Lisi
announces the failure of fourteen firms
interested in the shoe business, with
total liabilities of S755,0O0.
Mount Nesuvics is getting obstreper.
ols again, in a small way, and there
have been many slight earthquake in
dications 10 that region laterly,
A woman recently died in Palmer
Mass, who weighed 400 pounds Her
coffin was 3 feet S inches long, Is inch
es deep, and "a wide.
General Phil. Sheridan writes tina
he will return to his home, in Chicago
in January or FEBRUARY. He is now il
Consiantinople.
A New Haven "hook and needle
company have received an order from
England for two and a.half million o
fish hooks.
The American Colonization Societ.
has colonized $500 negroes in Afric.
since the war.
Three inches Of snow fell at Mcmph
is, Tennessee, and four inches at Littl
Rock, Arkansas, on Thursday night
Many youths, notsixteen years ufagc
are said to be found killed or Wounds
on the Franco German battle fields.
-Four brothers named Casey have bee
elected to the Illinois Legislature.
Henry Ward Beecher recently re
ceived $500 marriage fee.
Iowa has planted $4,000, 600 tree
within the last three years.
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