The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-12-27

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The RothschiIds, twelve in number. are
worth about one thousand million Of dol
lars as firm, including their individual
fortunes
An English real-esiate speculator recent
ly offered popular preacher $4,000 a
year, to settle in the neighborhood Of bis
property, to send up it's value.
Caleb Cushing will deliver the address
at the National Convention Of Survivors
Of the Mexican war TO be held in wash
ington on January 18th
The people Of Hartford county have
decided 70 hold county agricultural fair
next Fall. Belair has been selected as
the place fcs holding the exhibition.
The New Orleans Esicaynne speaks of
roses blooming and oranges hanging il
clusters IN that vicinity, and wonders when
winter is coming.
The passenger rates on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, between Baltimore and
Cincinnati and other Western cities, have
been reduced 20 to 80 per cent. the
reduction took effect on Monday.
A Peoria letter-carrier, after walking
nine miles and delivering the same letter
to 137 men, none Of whom would receive
It, sat down on a 6re-plug and wept
because Pocahontas was such fool as TO
catch the old mans war club. The letter
was directed to Mr.. Smith.
During the past year the Methodist
Episcopal Church has grown $4,000 900
richer, and gained over 5000 members.
making total of | ,464 ,027 members and
probationers The number Of deaths dur
ing the year is $4,000, which is unusually
large
It is reported that Mr.. Disrnli intends
visiting this country next spring. He
completed his sixty-eighth year on the
2lstof December. Lord Brougham medita-
ted a similar voyage when near seventy
years old, but died without seeing our
shores.
| Mr.. Baripg, the deceased London bank
er, has left fortune Of E2,000,0 600 ster-
ling, exclusive Of the immense value Of his
art collections. His nephew, Lord, North
brook, the Viceroy Of India, is Mr..
Barings principal heir. He has also left
to each clerk in the house Of Barring Bros.
d Co. years salary.
Cora Norman, who furnished tools to
her husband, with which he escaped from
the Liberty county, Georgia, jail, was
tried last week in the Superior Court of
that county and sentenced to one years
Imprisonment in the penitentiarq. Now
! it would only be the fair thing for the
fugitive husband to get her out.
The destruction Of last seasons crops
in Northwestern Iowa, by grasshoppers,
has caused great suffering among the
people. Their fellow-citizens in other
parts Of the State are organizing relief
committees, whilst the State Grange has
appointed special committee to receive
| contributions
/ A woman with a little child appeared
in the streets Of Berlin, N. Y, recently,
and after begging little food, disap-
peared. She was found next morning, her
child BY her side frozen to death, and
herself quite insensible. She was taken
in charge by the town authorities, but
died before anything could be done for
her.
/ Yhe Nescs published at Chestertoxn
Md, says The Epizootic again prevails
to some extent among the horses in this
county. We have heard Of quite mum.
Der Of cases in the lower district, and It Is
said that in addition to the former charac-
teristics Of the disease the cases this sea-
son are nearly all attended with sore
mouth
! The ownership Of onefcurth Of Eng
lands land by score or 50 Of families
has its likness in California, where there
are eleven hundred owners Of fifteen mil
lion acres--over thirteen thousand acres
each. This land is now used only for
grazing, and is rated at comparatively
low valuation but its appreciation is La
bic to make few thousand Astors out
there within few years
A woman living near Salamanca, N. ".
recently insisted upon her little daughter,
about six years old, going one evening re-
Gently to look for shawl which had been
lost on the mountains The child went
and lost its way in the darkness, and three
days after was found by some neiehbors
nearly starved to death, and her hands,
feet and ears badly frozen. The woman
and her husband are under arrest for cruel
treatment Of the child.
Near the town Of Ingcrsoll, Canada. o
terrible tragedy occurred Sunday. A man
named Timothy Topping killed his wife
and four children by cutting their throais
with butcher knife. He also tried TO
murder his two Oldest boys, but they
succeeded in disarming him, and fled for
/ help to a neighbor's. Upon their return
| they found that he had cut his own throat.
The cause assigned for the terrible butch
cry Is insanity, caused by financial trouble.
| A despatch from Calcutta brings the
news Of the near approach Of the antici-
pated famine in India. Althongh there
has as yet been no real distress, Il cannot
be a long time before actual destitution
and hunger sets in. AT a recent inesling
in London, for the purpose Of considering
| relief measures, il was stated that the popu-
lation Of Bengal numbers &C, ,000, 900, and,
according To the lowest estimate, 24,000,-
600 are suffering, and Of these fully one
fourth viii have to be relieved BY Govern
ment aid To keep life IN this number or
people for six months win require 6,500,-
600 tons Of rice, requiring an outlay of
a. .OO0, 600 by the Government An
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