The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-12-07
Items Of News.


board her captain, Brown, her mate Rob.
bins, the steward and two seamen. One of
the latter was immediately drowned, but
inc others chung to the rigging Their
clothes were frozen to their bodies. and the
steward was frozen to death, but the sur.
viyorS remained in the rigging from one
until seven clock in the morning, when
they were discovered by tug and taken off.
They were insensble when rescued. and
were restored To consciousness with great
difficulty.
London has new industry. namely.
the manufacture of cripples. The police
have discovered a firm of human fends
that take children of tender age and twist
their limbs so that they may be handy
legged or otherwise deformed. according To
the wish of the parents The obiec: of
tins is to make the unfortunate infants
/ objects Of charity. A regular tariff of
prices is demanded a thorough and com
plete manning costing four pounds. The
members of the concern and about dozen
employees have been imprisoned.
The wife ola certain James II. Burden,
of Lima, Ohio, had the misfortune to have
her arm broken a year since. DR.. Brice
Blair adjusted the fractured bone. but with
so little skill that the lady was made
cripple for the rest of her life. The hus-
band brought an action for damage against
DIR. Blair, and obtained a verdict Of 81 900.
The surgeon was not satisfied with this and
secured a new trial. The cuse was con
cluded on the oath instant, and resulted
in verdict for 81 200.
The Female Convicts in the MARYLAND
Penitentiary, instead of being employed in
the manufacture of match boxes, as was
heretofore the practice, have recently been
furnished with sewing machines, and are
now engaged in making up clothing of the
cheaper kind Many of them have become
very skilful in the use of the sewing ma
chine, and this change in the kind Of labor
will teach the female convicts trade by
which they can support themselves after
the expiration of their sentences.
The Modoc Indians, on the Klamath
reservation, in Oregon, having refused To
leave the reservation, Major Jackson and
thirty-hve men Of the First Cavalry, went
to eject them on the 2Sth ult. 4 battle
ensued, in which one soldier and two citi-
Gems and fifteen of the Indians were killed.
All the Indian women were captured. The
Indians fed, but returned, and the fighting
continued at last accounts.
Tho Clan tp..l I,.l :.
the lAckawanna region, has gone into
bankruptcy, with liabilities of about
100000. Jay Gould is reported large
stakeholder in it, and the Erie Railroad
Company holder of 1850, 900 of its
bonds.
From the middle of 1862 to the last of
June, 1872, the United States paid Paris
the sum of $3.50 600, 900. This amount
was forwarded in gold, on account of
jewelry, laces, silks, gloves, grapes, merinos,
hats, human hair and miscellaneous toilet
articles.
The proposed railroad between Lewes
and Rehoboth city meets with much fovor
from capitalists aud business men, and a
meeting to further the enterprise will be
held at Reboboth city, on Thursday, De
cember 18th 4 rival of Cape May viii
spring up there,
More than ordinary sympathy will be
felt for Miss Ida Greeley, who, in one
short month. has lost father and mother,
and whose betrothed lover went down on
the i'll iated Steamer Missouri Washiag-
ton Star.
The failure of the Ryle silk Manufac-
turing Company of Paterson, n. j., is an
nounced Liabilities 100000, John C.
Ryle, the principal incorporation, is reported
missing.
A colored woman, her daughter, aud a
colored man. had drunken carousal in a
cabin, near st. Charles, Mo-, last Wednes-
day night and the cabin attaching fire. all
were burned to death
Rinehart's statue of the late Chief Jus
tice fancy will be presented to the State
of Maryland ON Tuesday, December 10.
The presentation will take place in the
Senate chamber at Annapolis.
The New York Herald says the in
auguatiou ball at Washington next March
will have an entirely new feature in the
presence of the elite of colored society in
Washington.
Mr.. Simon Lohr at his Shady Side,
farm up in Cherry Valley, near Mt. St.
Mary's College, made for himself and
Others 4GS barrels of excellent cider this
fall
A libel suit, laid at $4,000 damages
has been brought against John W. Forney
by the Third Auditor of the Treasury
Allen Rutherford for an alleged libel,
The Khediye of Egypt intends to send
force Of 5000 troops, under command OF
an American officer, to aid DIR. Livingstone
in his search for the source of the Nile
Destructive prairie fires ragged near Du-
wallis Bluff, Ark, week ago. After burn,
ing several days they were extinguished
by rain.
The case of Edward $. Stokes, indicted
for the murder of James Fisk in New York,
will come up on the second Monday of De
cember.
1t Is claimed that the immigrants who
landed on our shores last year added up.
ward of s2s5,000,O00 to the national
wealth.
The total length of the railways Of
France is IL ,l4l miles that of the railway,
of the United States is more than G0,00t
miles.
Mosby of Virginia the Confederate raider
is seeking contract to furnish headstones
for the graves of Union soldiers buried in
the sacred soil of the old Dominion.
The Shakers are quarreling over thu
question of marriage. Matrimony very
often shakes things, but in this case /
shakes the shakers.
st. Louis annually brews 35l PSI barrels
of lager beer, requiring the consumption
of ,O0l 900 bushels of barley.
During last August, more snow is re
ported to have fallen in Australia than ha,
been known for twenty years.
The Chicago Tribune says that there ar,
more wooden buildings in that city nov
than before the fire.
There were 50 deaths from small pox il
/ Boston last week, out of total mortalit,