The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1871-12-23
Items of News.

oysters to English waters. The English
steamship Salselte, now dischargiug at
Philadelphia, will be in our Bay in a
few days, and will take on board car
go Of the choicest bivalves that can be
procured.
A story comes from Fitchburg, Mas
sachusetts, that II cat lay down in fly
wheel early in the morning, aud was
not discovered till the engine had
been running three hours a dog then
detected her and gave the alarm.
When the engine was stopped, the cat
was rescued uninjured, after making
sixty revolutions a minute for three
hours.
There is much alarm in Brooklyn in
consequence of the continued aud per
sistent spread of small pox. Itappears
to prevail with us much viruence among
the wealthy portion Of the citizens as
among the poor. Fears are expressed
that it will become as wide spread as it
has been in Philadelphia.
John Harper intends to train and
run Longfclow next spring iu the
north. He expects to be at the Spring
Meeting at jerome Park, but will not
run him until the first meeting ut Long
Branch Mr.. Harper has faith in his
forse, and thinks he eau outrun Harry
Bassett, and eau be made to stay at
long distance.
At New Brunswick, n j., on Sun.
day night, eight men attacked, gagged
aud bound the jailor, aud tried to get
inside the Jail. The assistant jailor
fired on them and called the police,
when the rufiians fled 1t is supposed
they intended to release u bank robber.
The Alasons OF Baltimor. recently
sent donation of $1,000 to the Masons
OF Wisconsin, sufferers by the forest
fires, but the latter wrote back that
they thought the Suffering Masons OF
Chicago needed the aid more, aud beg
ged that the fund be diverted in that
direction.
The last Iowa Senate rashly elected
young lady to Que of its clerkships
The result is thit there is now iurOre
among female aspiranis for Legislative
.honors, aud the contest in the coming
Assembly will be likely to test the gal
lantry OF the legislators
The remains Of the late General
Eobert Andersou, Of Fort Suppter fame
who died in Europe, are being brought
home on the IT, S. steamer Guerrierc.
On their arrival, the War Department
has ordered that proper honors be paid
his memory
The Grand Duke Aless visits Chi.
cago on the 18th. General Sheridan
has invited him TO grand buffalo hunt
from Fort Nc phorson, To be participa-
ted 10 by one thousand Indians under
""Spotted Tail"
AT Milburn, N. T., on Saturday
night, four laborers returning from
work GU the railroad track, were struck
by locomotive. Three were instantly
killed, aud the fourth seriously injured.
lathe case OF the Commonwealth VS.
.Jobn c. Deunis, of Worcester, Mass,
for attempting to commit suicide, the
Supreme Court decides that there is no
law 10 punish such crime.
The loss by the burning on Monday
night Of the Chicago smelling works is
$4,000; insurance $4,000, in the
Corn Excha nge, Mechanics aud Eutaw
companies Of Baltimore.
There were 497 deaths in Phiadel.
lphia last week, an increase of n over
the number for the previous week.
The small pox deaths numbered ILL
az adults and l39 children.
August Belmont, denounces the
charges, accusations. insiDuations aud
inuuenaoes in che Taaes' editorials as
NO his completely with corrupt transac-
lions or corrupt men as false and calum.
NOUS.
jesse r. Grant, father of the Presi-
dent, was stricken with paralysis at one
O'Clock on Wednesday. He fell TO the
aoor ut the Coyington postofiice, aud
yremaiBed insensible an hour.
The corn crop of 1871 is estimated
by the Agricultural Bureau ut i ,092,.
900 bushels decrnase of 1000 900
bushels compared with the crop Of lust
year.
Mr.. Revcrdy johnson is defending
the Ku- Klux 10 South Carolina, while
his son, the U. s. Marshal, brings them
before the bar OF justice.
At Syracuse, N. Y, on the 10Th, all
the news dealers were indicted by the
Grand jury for selling obscene weekly
pictorial newspapers.
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