The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-11-23
Items of News.

Of the church, by Mr. +. w Bennett
auctioneer Sixiy-two pcws sold for sI27.
100 an increase IN premiums over the as
sessemcnt Of s29,5S0, or an average a
$1,000 for each The additional sales 81
I Wednesday amounted to Sl27. 1856 total
sl39,0s0. Total cost of the lot. bnildin.
and appointments, s3S0,OO0 Additional
pows are 10 be sold, which will probabl,
leave q cash balance of $50 300. after nj
expenses are paid.
\ severe earthquake occurred at Con
cord, \ H., at 2oclock Monday afternoon
lasting about ten seconds. 1t began witt
a sound like an'explosion, which was fol
lowed by trembling and shaking. tn,
f apparent course of the earth waves being
from west 10 east. Buildings rocked
violently, and the shock was plainly per
ceptiblc to people walking in the streets. in,
shocks were also felt at Cuntoocook. War.
ner aud l.nconia, the duration ut the latter
/ place being five seconds
The Illinois Female College. at Jackson.
VILE ILL.,, was burned On Monday night
Loss $4,000. There were sixty Young
ladies in the college all of whom escaped
with their clothing aud books. Several
1 persons were severely injured in trying Ia
save the building This is the third time
this college, which belongs to the Ilinoi.
NJ. + Conference, has been burned in
/ nine years
The residence of John Watson. neal
I iitusyille, Pa. was entered on the evening.
OF the 10Th. immediately after dark, by five
masked men, who, after binding each
member Of the family, compelled Watson
20 open his safe, from which $1,000 wa,
taken, after which Watson was likewise
bound, and the robbers made their escape.
/ In 1867 IL man named Sproul was muir.
dercd IN his own house, and in presence of
his wife, whom the murdercrs first securely
gagged and tied at Washington, Pa. 4
few days ago a mau named Hiram Daily
confessed 10 the authorities of Brookville
Pa, as one Of the murdcrcrs, and gave him.
self up
The number of deaths from the horse
disease in Philadelphia is estimated at
from 100 to 200 per day. Ia Cincinnati.
where the pest is at its height, 100 horses
are known to have already died. At
Columbus, Ohio, Wilmington, n. C..
Atlanta Ga, and Nashville and Memphis.
Tenn, the malady is spreading.
Immense herds of buffalo are now pass
Ing southwark through Western Kansas.
Dispatches from the end of the Atehison,
Topeka and Santa Fc Railroad say they
are so numerous that trains cannot be run
with safety.
At Charleston, ). C., Judge Mills has
issued an injunction against the collection
Of the State tax of twelve mills, ordered
by the Comptroller General, on the ground
that it has not been authorized by the
Legislature.
Ten thousand dollars worth of lace shawls.
supposed TO be struggled, were seized in
an acution house in new York on Monday.
On the same day registered letter con
tanning S3l 900 in cut stones was seized
in the New York Post Office.
\ Grand Exposition will take place in
1873, at the Sydcuham Crystal Palace,
near London, aud the Commissioners have
scut To the United States Government the
rules and regulations, which are substan-
TALLY the same as those of the Exhibition
Of 1851.
\ negro man named Ross Brandon.
was taken out of Jail at Blandvillc, Ky on
Sunday night, by a company of seventy
five men, and hung ON a tree, for commit
ting rape on a respectable young lady in
the vicinity.
The voting OF Miss Susan b. Anthony
and her 1t associates at Rochester at the
Presidential election has taken new
phase Warrants have been issued by the
u. 5. Commissioner for their arrest for
Illegal voting.
Henry Clough, a wcll-known citizen,
dropped dead of heart disease Sunday
night. at Manchester. n, H., Immediately
after delivering temperance address at II
meeting in the llanoyer-street Congrega-
tional Church.
Mr.. Surgeons sister is preaching at
Willinghan, Cambridgeshire, England, with
such success that the police authorities
there have expressed their thanks to her for
eilectinga decrease in the number of erimi-
nal eases
1t is stated that six New York regi-
ments, three companies from Philadelphia,
and the Fifth Maryland regiment, will
participate in the parade at Washington,
ON President Grants second Inauguration.
Two strangers took shelter in the boiler
house of blast furnace at Columbus,
Ohio, on Sunday night Next morning
one was found dead, and the other insensi-
BILE, from the effects of the gas.
The United States steamer Portsmouth,
to sail from New York this week, will take
out corps of civil engineers for Il
further exploration of the lsthmus of Oar
len.
The Aanopohs Gazette says that the
second trial of Ms Wharton for the al
legged poisoning of General Van Ness, in
Baltimore, some time since, has been fixed
for Monday the 9th of January next.
During fight between two of the classes
Of Columbia College, New York, few
uaNs since, stuueut hdnlcu W hltc was
fatally injured by being thrown over the
third story banisters.
AtJackson, Michigan, ON last Saturday,
while the roof of new railroad depot was
being raised, the scafolding fell, killing
two men aud seriously injuring nine
Others.
An old sailor recently refused to ship
ON Lake Erie schooner, because he had
seen a rat swim ashore from it. Curiously
enough the vessel was foundered the next
night, with all on board.
Tx Empress Eugene held fete at
Chiselhurst on Saturday. Many visitors
were present from Paris A number of
regiments stationed at Versailles sent
bouquets.
jeremiah Thomas colorcd, was killed ON
the 10th by the falling of the frame work
in tunnel on the Baltimore and Potomac
Railroad, near Park avenue in Baltimore.
o. +, Anderson, the last survivor of the
John Brown raid, is sick and destitute in
Washington. Subscriptions have been
started for his benefit
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