The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1871-10-26
Items of News.

Sou,OUU worth OF postage stamps,
though unfit for use, were in n condi.
ton TO be returned for exchange. The
cashiers day book and ledger could be
read, but the cash book was DESTROYED.
The U. s. District Attorney lost ali his
papers. Thus far l25 bodies huve been
recovered, and it is believed that the
first estimates loss of life were greatly
exaggerated, A number of persons
supposed to be dead have been discov.
cred alive and well. Thousands of men
we're at work in the South Division
yesterday clearing away the debris aud
putting up temporary buildings. Every
laboring man can now fnd plenty to do
ut liberal wages
IL is reported that an English gun
bont is searching after the American
fishing schooner Il A. Horton, which
was captured aud taken into Nova
Scotian port on the charge Of violating
the fisheries regulations, and from there
was reeapturcd by party from Glou.
cester, Massachusetts,. Several United
States vessels proceeded to that local.
~, intending to Interfere it the Eug
lishman harmed the Horton, but up to
the latest adyices nothing serious had
occurred and the gunboat had not been
sighted.
The trial of Colonel Thomas j. vii.
son, late Deputy Collector of Customs,
charged with the embeszement Ct Ger.
tain public funds, was concluded on the
18th inst, with verdict of guilty ON
the three counts Of the indictment.
The sums named in these several counts
as having been embezzled amount to
SO, $50 in the aggregate. The general
linc OF defence pursued by the prison
er's counsel was intended to raise the
presumption before the jury that these
sums had been appropriated by Gen.
Bowerman, already convicted.
President Grant issued a PROCLAIM.
ton, October II, suspending the writ
OF habcos corpus in nine counties Of
South Carolina The suspension applies
TO all persons who may be arrested by
the United States Marshal or any OF
his deputies or military officers acting
under his direction. The counties
named are Sparlansburg, York, Marion,
Chester, Lawrens, Newbery, Fairfield,
Lancaster aud Chesterfield.
The Board Of Arbitrators on the
Alabama Claims, to sit at Geneva, is
now complete, the appointment left O
the Emperor Of Brazil being the last
made. The members are Charles Fran
els Adams on behalf Of the United
States Lord Chief Justice Sir Alexau.
der Cockburn for Great Britain JAG.
ques Staempai OF Switzerland; Count
Selopis, OF Italy, and Baron dc Itnjuba
Of Brazil
AT Trenton on the 18th inst, Chanccl.
Tor Iabrskie gave decision dissolying
the injunction against the lease OF the
United Railroads aud Canals of New
Jersey to the Pennsylvania Central
Railroad Company. This permits the
negotiations to be contaminated, BY
which the Pennsylvania Company gets
possession Of nearly all the railroads and
canals in the State of New Jersey.
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