The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1871-07-27
Items of News

U" "eIe' IL Is rumOreu tnat the Ten
trail aud California Pacific Railroads
have been sold to the Pennsylvania
Railroad. The report causes almost
panic in Sacramento, WHERE a heavy
decline in real estate is anticipated
should it prove true.
Longfellow recently beat KingGsher at
Saratoga, and his owner was immediate.
ly offered $50 900 for him: This was
declined, an offer Of $4,000 having
previously been made. This horse.
which is said to have made the fastest
running time in the country, is valued
by his owner, John Harper, of Ken
lucky, ut 500, 900.
A new style of earring and neck lace
has been recently introduced by the
ladies at Saratoga These ornaments
are composed Of five dollar gold pieces.
Joined together by small gold chains,
and are very unique. A whisper of the
autumn costumes tells us that they will
be very simple, trimmed with bias folds
of the material, or else perfectly plain.
The over skirts are to be long, aud loop.
ed up at the sides.
Terrible storms have lately occurred
on the coasts Of New Foundland and
Labrador. Ninety three lives are report
ed as having been lost, with the destruc.
ton Of three hundred and twenty five
fishing vessels, two hundred and thirty.
eight dwellings aud fifteen hundred
THOUSAND dollars worth of property.
Advces from Athens announce n ter.
rible disaster on board a Greek man of.
war. The magazine of the steamer
Eunomia exploded on the Sd inst in
the Grecian Archipelago. Forty Of
her crew were killed, and nearly ali the
rest more or less injured, while the
vessel itself was almost entirely destroy.
ed.
An explanation of the defalcation in
the Savannah Custom House is given.
Deputy Collector Wellnan confesscs to
have appropriated to himslf $4,000 Of
the public money, but exoucratcs Col.
Iector kobb from any share 10 the trans.
actions.
An Illinois man who had his watch
stolen from his pocket, and advertised
that the thief must return it if he would
avoid trouble, received before | | o clock
on the same day three watches, and n
letter promising fourth if he would
send s25 and ask no questions.
A terrible tragedy recently occurred
at Eldorado, Kansas, growing out of a
threat of political enemies to hang L.
Is. Murdoch, editor of the Times. His
wife became insane, and while laboring
underline belief that the threat was about
to be executed, cut 1.-THE throat of her
babe aud then her own.
The great four cared race for the
championship OF the world and prize
of $4,000, on kcnnebecasis River, N.
b., in August will take place on the
second day. The hotels are now full.
and it is feared there will be a want of
accommodation for the numbers expec-
ted.
Shade trees appear to be suffering in
the city of New York, on account Of
wood or pitch pavements as the exclu.
sion Of moisture and air from the root
causes hundreds to wither aud die. In
Brooklyn, on Clinton avenue, almost half
ofthetrees seem as though frost had Kill.
led them.
A horse belonging to Martin Gross,
OF Ephrata, near Lancaster, Pa, last
week, walked up fight of fifteen steps
into the loft over his stable, where he
was found in the morning full of oats.
lie was got down by a sling aud tackle.
A brave San Francisco lady, who
who discovered Chinese burglar in
her house at dead of night, seized him
in the dark and held him, screaming
meanwhile, until her husband came and
captured him.
John Ditto is the name Of a Buffalo
city engineer. His wife's name is Dit
to, and the children are all Ditto.
When he signs his name under that of
somebody else, it is said to create ssme
confusion at times.
Henry Meiggs, the famous American
engineer and contractor in Peru, is said
to be about to import 600 Cinnamon
from San Francisco, to labor on the
public works in Pera. His son is at
present in New York.
OF the six thousand people at Sara.
toga last week it is estimated that only
FIVE hundred were there on account Of
their health. The others came to see
and be seen.
The contemplated tunnel under the
Detroit river, between Detroit and
Windsor, Cauada, will extend 1858 feet
from portal to portal. The estimated
cost is $1,000, 900.
Baron Schlosser, the successor TO
Baron Gerolt, as German Minister to
Washington. is not expected to arrive
in this country until late in the fall.
lie is now on mission to Rome.
Seth Green aud CA. Kellogg, of
Rochester, D. Y, have returned from
California, aud report complete success
in transferring shad from the Hudson
to the Sacramento river.
Chief Justice Chase aud General Joe
Hooker are spending the summer at the
St. Louis Magnetic Springs, Michigan,
and are receiving great benefit from the
water.
Reuben w. Beebe, formerly a hotel
proprietor in New York, died in that
city on Friday, from the effects of u bite
Of lion in circus at Syracuse, New
York.
Alvin Adams, the founder of the
express business in this country, who
was a poor man thirty years ago, is now
one Of the wealthicst citizens 10 New
England.