The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1871-08-24
Items of News

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into perilous position upon the gutter
Of house. Sculen saw the child and
thought TO rescue it by climbing the
water leader at the corner Of the house
lie was just reaching out his hand to
seize the child when the gutter gave
way, and in falling he was transfxed
through the thigh upon one of the iron
pickets of the area fence. The child
was saved by getting moose around its
body and drawing it through the dor.
mer window in the roof, out of which it
had crawled.
BY an ingenious scheme twelve con.
victs escaped from Sing Sing prison,
New York, On Thursday. A steam tug
ran alonside the pier, in accordance
with preconcerted arrangement, and
the prisoners jumped on board, aud
before they could be stopped had reach
ed the opposite shore Of the Hudson
where they hid among the mountains.
The boat aud its officers were captured.
Eight Of the twelve have been recaptur.
ed. One Of them was shot during the
pursuit, and is so badly wounded that
he will die.
The Cloverdale stage was attacked by
robbers, in Sonora county, Cal, on
Wednesday night. There were four or
five highwaymen, while the passengers
numbered ten men and four women.
Some Of the passengers fred upon the
robbers, and the fire being returned, I.
ii. Benton, a merchant of Mendociuo
county, Cal was killed, and Lieuten.
ant b. s. Caffman, agent for j. Fried.
lander, Of San Francisco, MORALLY
wounded. The robbers escaped with.
out getting any plumber.
AT New Orleans, frauds have been
discovered in the Substitution of
jurors" which, it is believed, will lead IL
many new trials. A jury broker, na,ped
Z. j. Hussey, has been sentenced to
ten days imprisonment and $50 fine F;
and Henry Jones, for falsely person..
ting another man as juror has been
sentenced to ten days Imprisonment and
500 fine.
At Burlington, Iowa, some weeks
ago, Mrs. John Parrot was found dead
in tho kitchen of her house, with gun
by her side, and it was supposed she
had committed suicide. Circumstances
since then, however, have thrown sus.
picion on her husband, aud he has been
held to answer the charge Of wife MUIR.
der.
The horses attached to a stage coach
going from McConnellsburg to Cham.
bersburg took fright on the top of the
mountain on Thursday night, aud dash.
ed down the side. The coach was over
turned AMI demolished about mile
from the summit, killing the driver and
seriously injuring lady aud gentle.
man who were passengers.
A freight train on the Northern Cen.
trail Railroad was run into by follow
ing train a: Ashland, fifteen miles from
Baltimore, Thursday, and several cars
aud locomotive were smashed. James
Little, brakesmau, was killed, aud
another brakesman, named w. II. Glen
DENIM, was seriously injured.
Two hundred ready made dwellings
are to be shipped from Chicago to Col.
'orado. They are to contain seven
rooms each, with partitions, stairs win.
-dows, sash and casing, roofs, and trim.
mings for doors and windows complete,
and can he placed in complete condition
for occupancy in two hours after being
unloaded.
A farmer named Jonathan Hoffman,
aged 30, was shot dead near his house,
on the road to Cape May Court House,
N. j., on Thursday night. Hoffman's
wife was with him, but unable to give
any clue to the assassin, owing to the
darkness. Robbery was the object.
During storm on Bayou Rapids,
La, on the 9TH inst, two strangers
sought shelter in tree and were killed
BY lightning. Papers found upon them
led to the belief that they were Cana.
dams, named Buck and Shook.
At Dutch Gap the cutoff will soon
be completed, giving a width of 100
feet and a depth of Is feet at high
water. A channel 1875 feet wide aud
IL feet deep will also be opened through
the rock at Rockets.
A suit is pending at jacksonville, ILL.,.
with nine parties on ono side aud
several on the other, to get possession
Of an 100000 diamond, which has
been a family heirloom the past century.
A negro preacher named Cramer, has
been arrested at Snow Hill, North Caro-.
lima, for poisoning two wells on the
premises of j. A. Edwards, q respecta.
Bile white citizen. Fortunately the
poison was discovered in time.
A man in Illinois, twenty four hours
after his wife died, and before her
funeral, played croquet with the girls.
For this his indignant neighbors tarred
and feathcrcd him.
The horn of Patagonian OK has
been forwarded to Baltimore. 1t is
sixty.five inches long, seventeen inches
IN circumference at the base, aud will
hold seven quarts.
Mrs. Amy Franks, of Fayctte county.
iennsylvania, is ninety years old, and
has i've hundred living Descendants
including fourteen sons aud daughters
Ieiegraphic communication Is now
established with Japan. Messages wer,
sent from London to Yokohama and
answers received on the lzth.
An Indiana hen turned bex oycr
her and remained under it three week
without food or water, aud was taken
out alive.