The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-02-03
Items Of News.

lutO passenger TRAIN. rive OF SIX cars
were wrecked, aud large number OF
persons badly Injured GA the Louis.
willie Ky. Short Liue Road several cars
upon entering the depot at Eagle Sta.
tion, jumped from the track, and plow
Ing their way across the platform,
mangled and seriously injured a NUN,
her of persons. Ga the Erie Road n
passenger train when near Lock Haven
was thrown from the track, and four Of
the ears upsetting were burned. SIEVE.
raj persons were injured, one seriously
Mexico seems, from present adyices,
to continue in the condition of mislOr.
tuue which for many years has been
chronic there. Sundry new reyoIu
tlonary movements are announced, and
there is scarcely an evil that can beiall
a nation that Mexico does not suffer
In addition TO the military manpuyres
aud the forced collection, from the
people i'll lieu Of taxes, Of which the
public time and again have heard, Mex
lean railways are now infested with
highwaymeu, who boldly stop trains
aud rob the passengers. The condition
Of that unfortunate country is pitiable
Several young men, who were fellow
passengers with Helen Josephine Mans.
field, OF Fisk aud Stokes notoriety, on
the traiu which arrived at Boston on
Friday morning from New York, hooted
aud hustled her in the depot, creating
considerable disturbance. Some hack.
men aud railroad officials helped her
out of the crowd TO her carriage, aud
she departed.
Last Saturday, two oil tank cars on
the Pennsylvania Railroad, near Cone.
maugh, were smashed By collision.
They were standing on the sidugs, and
the crude oil covered the tracks aud
filled the cutters between them Soon
after hot coal from a passing locomo
tive fell into the oil, aud the freight
ears and four passenger cars on the ST.
dings were destroyed.
Twenty new horse flesh stands are to
be opened shortly in the twenty wards
Of Paris, because under done fllet Of
horse has been discovered by the medi
cal men to be very beucfcinl in cases Of
chest diseases. 1t is said that a gene.
raj diet OF horsehesh has been found to
effect a sensible dimiuutiun in the mum.
Der Of deaths from consumption
William Thompson, aged eighty,
once the wealthicst banker OF New Or.
leans, aud General Jackson's adjutant,
was found by the police in small Of
flee in Broadway, New York, last Sun
day night, sick, destitute aud starry.
ing" He was removed to the hospital.
Gen. X. $. Ewell, prominent South
cru military leader, IN the late civil
war, died at his residence in Tennessee,
last week. His wife also died two days
after Gen. Ewel was a native of the
District OF Columbia, aud educated at
West Point.
Quite lively scene occurred in the
Spanish Cortes On Friday. Dee of the
members made the assertion that il was
time for Spain to cede Cuba to our
Government, whereupon the whole
House literally booted him down.
The Reyolutiouists are continuing
their successful progress ia northwes-
tern Mexico. The town of Cnma.go
has been successfully fanked, aud the
next movement will probably be upon
the Important city of Matamoras.
The Prcsbytery of Brooklyn, n. Y,
will meet next Monday, to take action
on the case of Rev, Theodore l.. Guy.
Ter, who has recently admitted Miss
Smiley, an Orthodox Quaker Minister,
to preach in his pulpit.
Nineteen deaths from smallpox in
Chicago, during the past week aud the
disease is on the increase. There are
now thirty four patients 10 the hospital.
Seven physicians have been prosecuted
for not properly reporting cases.
The property of the late Isaac Rich,
OF Boston, amounting to $1,000, 900 is
.willed under certain restrictions to the
Boston University, branch Of the
Boston Theological Seminary, a Meth
odist institution,
Affairs between the United States and
venezuela are assuming a threatening
aspect. The seizure OF tho vessels be
longing to the American Transportation
Company is the latest question in dis.
pute
The Memphis aud Charleston Rail.
road has been leased to the Pennsylya.
MIA Railroad Company. he last named
company now controls more miles of
railroad than any other company in the
world.
A Spanish gun boat has captured and
flowed into Alaziuelloa an English schooner
and crew. 1t is said that the schooner
had landed coBtraband articles of war
on the island Of Cuba when captured.
The loyal subjects of the Queen in
London are so rejoiced that the Prince
of Wales did not die from his recent
illness that they are to celebrate the
event by general thanksgiving.
VIM Thompson, Of r., late State
Printer, and at the time of his death
'one Of the Judges of the Orphans Court
'of Montgomery county, died on the 23d
of January.
The statement going the rounds that
john c. Calhoun's estate had been
bought BY a colored man is mistake.
It was bought by his sonin.law Col.
Clemseu.
A religious Journal opposed to the
dogma of Papal Infalibility is to be
published at Rome, with Father IIya.
cinthe as one OF the contributors.
Wyiie Wilson, an attorney of Wash.
lngtou, Pa, has been arrested on the
charge Of having forged a voucher for
soldiers back pay aud bounty