The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-06-21
Items of News.

The crops in Texas are greatly damaged
by recent violent storms of rain and hail
General Joseph Il. Johnston and wife
are to spend the summer in Virginia.
The late fair of the Free Masons in
New York City netted $40, 900 for the new
Masonic Temple,
David j. Cummins, ESD, of Smyrna
Del, employs over 300 pickers in his
strawberry fields.
All the Modoc prisoners have been
removedto Fort klamath, California, under
strong guard
Georgia has 20 condemned criminals, all
of whom are to be banged before the 4th
of July next.
Nine thousand immigrants arrived in
New York last week, making a total of
I4s,l5 since the LIST of January.
The maple sugar yield in Northern New
England this year is estimated at only
about One-fourth of last years crop
Fall wheat throughout Canada is most
seriously damaged Much has been plow-
ed up and replaced with spring wheat.
The Supreme Court at indianapolis has
granted fifth trial to Mrs Glenn, for the
murder of Mr.. and Mrs. Young.
Governor Dix, of New York, and family
have arrived at Saratoga and taken apart
ments at the Grand Hotel for the season.
A huge serpent, twelve feet in length
with a girth of fifteen inches, was killed
in the marshes, near Lewes, Delaware
last week.
Buffalo Horn, an Indian chief serving
out term in the Texas penitentiary, ram
med spoon down his throat the other
day, and died.
1t is reported that an effort will be made
by the Indian Peace Commissioners to
prevent the punishment of Captain Jack
and his guilty associates.
Cows are dying off in the vicinity of
Elyria, o. from mysterious disease. They
are taken suddenly sick, refusing TO eat
or drink, and in few hours die in great
agony.
The Pope is convalescent. Thanks.
giving services were held in Rome Sunday
evening to return thanks for the restora.
ton to health of "his Holiness"
The Philadelphia Press of Saturday
reports the failure of Mr.. c. NJ. S. Leslie,
who has been extensively engaged in
building operations in that city, with
liabilities amounting to s250,O00
The beard of dead man. who was clean
shaved at the time of his burial six years
ago, in San Francisco, vas found to be
eighteen inches long, when his coffin was
opened a few weeks ago.
Counterfeit ten cent notes have been
put in circulation in New York. The
bogus note is said to be so like the genu-
inc article that it requires the closest ex-
animation and inspection to tell one from
the other.
An Illicit distillery was seized in Brook
lyn on Saturday. The seizure included IA
stills, 0 tubs and $4,000 gallons of mash.
The Officers were pclted with stones by a
mob, but serious trouble was prevented by
the police.
Mr.. A. B. Meacham, one of the Peace
Commissioners, who is still suffering from
the wound he received at the meeting I'M
der the flag Of truce at the time General
Candy and DIR. Thomas were shot, is at
the National Hotel, in Washington city.
The caterpillars have again appeared in
the country around Memphis, and are
destroying the cotton. They are reported
worse than ever before in Northern
Mississippi, owing TO constant rains. The
cotton is also said to be suffering damage
from grass and weeds.
A Frenchman named Lanet, and
colored justice of the peace, named Alex
ander Snaer were murdered in their store
near New Iberia, La, on Friday night, by
three negroes, who then robbed and set fire
to the place. A number of citizens went
in pursuit of the murdercrs.
At the anniversary meeting of the
London Royal Geographical Society, on
the 2Gth ult., Major General Rawlinson,
before bidding farewell to the members as
their President, explained that the Victoria
medal had been forwarded to Mr.. Stanley,
in America, for his discovery of Dr. Liv-
ingstone
The Norwegian bark Astor, from Havana
for Havre, has put into Hampton Roads,
with yellow fever on board One man
died Of the fever on the passage, and her
captain and three men arc now i'll of it,
but recovering. Several cases have been
reported at New York quarantine from
Havana.
''0ne of the most troublesome of tho
counterfeiting and forging fraternity" was
arrested by Special Treasury Agent Bailey,
at Springfield, ILL.,, on Sunday night His
name is Merrille, alias Moore, alias Morris
Blank drafts on the First National Bank
I'd Memphis and other banks were found on
him
Secretary Robson states, in advance of
ahe Official report, that the testimony in the
Poaris case shows that Captain Hall died
"A natural death, and that the separation of
the party on the ice foe from the Polaris
was accidental He desires, however, to
hear the account of CAPTAIN Buddington
hbA MS party, % thdt Dutn slueS OF tnc
story may be known,
At New Orleans ON Saturday, Judge
Cullom rendered decision in a civil
rights case, under the State law relating
to common carriers, giving Josephine
Decius, a eolored woman, $1,000 damages
against the owners of the steamer Governor
Allen, who refused her cabin passage
and such accommodations MS they gave to
white ladies.
The New England State Prisons are
generally selfsupporting, and in the case
of New Hampshire there is surplus fund
of twenty thousand dollars towards new
structures, enlargements and repairs. The
Pittsburg prison is said to be under wise
discipline, and yields surplus annually
over all expenses. Industry, well directed,
is great boon to prisoners.
The Ripley (Tenn.) Ne'es of the 9th
instant says-Therc is u calf this county
fourteen months old that has been giving
milk fnr two monft,e alfhn,,ob sba baa