The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-09-20
Items OF News.

at Milwaukee amounted TO 433, 600 bushels
Great loss of property has occurred in
Scotland from the recent heavy rains.
The last German soldier was withdrawn
from France at 81 A. NJ. on the 10th
instant. France is now free.
The Eclectic Life Insurance Company
of New York has ''gone up" Liabilities
over 100000.
VIM. McCartey killed his father-in- law,
Robert Inslcy, in Dorchester county, Md,
last week, by beating him to death.
1t costs Richmond, Va, SIS 63 per
annum for every child attending the public
schools.
Virginia has paid $50, 100000 Of taxes
into the United States Treasury on her
tobacco alone since the war
A fire in Chicago, on Wednesday, de-
stroyed over 200 dwellings. Loss $780,
900. 1t began near where the fire of Oc-
tober, 1871, started
An inmate of Monteyue Hospital, Fred
erick by the name of Augustus Wrenn,
committed suicide on Monday last, by
hanging himself.
After sixteen years of poverty and toll,
Mrs. Knight, of Milwaukee, has discovered
is secret drawer $4,000 life policy left
by her husband.
Counterfeits Of the last issue of fifty
cent notes, $50 skillfully executed as to
almost defy detection by experts" are re-
ported TO be circulating,
CORTLAND Sprague, OK -trcasurer Of Brook
Ign, New York, has been arrested on the
charge of embezzling s14S,OO0 belonging
to that city.
Jack" Sheppard has accomplished the
feat of walking 1000 miles in 1000 con-
secutivc hours, in the City Gardens at
San Francisco.
Mrs. Mary Callahan, aged So, died on
Sunday morning, in Baltimore, from the
effects of a kicking given her by Charles
Morrison on Wednesday afternoon Of last
week.
Joseph Campbell jumped from the Ohio
river bridge at Louisville, Ky, Saturday
night, eighty feet to the bare rocks below,
mnInon
1% I'm ,,,.,
oonh iia''ili'oii was kiiieu ana william
Munk severely injured by the premature
explosion Of a blast in a stone-quarry ut
Baltimore, on Saturday. Hamilton was
80, EnaJonJ ""' " ""'''' VI -'"'''''s'
,.
IL ~ asscr.eu py uNpatch from owen
county, heh'ucAy' ,na' 'he WORST OF the
91.rageS perPetrated there by alleged hu-
nluN were conimit'ed by men VINO were
formerly members OF the Federal army
An INSANE woman, steerage passenger
oh tne steamship wy OF brooklyn, at sea
on 'ne ,'n INST, Threw her niue BOY over
ooaru' 'heh win hcr paoe III hcr arms,
jumped oVerpoara' one was rescued and
resuscitated but the children were drowned d,
The cemetery OF the Second Presbyterian
Church, Baltimore, has been the scene of
recent vandalism. Many of the vaults
have been opened, the collins broken to
pieces and the bones scattered over the
premises promiscuously.
A violent storm occurred on the Blnck
Sea last week, which proved very destruc.
tive to shining. Seventy vessels were
wrecked near the mouth of the Bospborus
Nearly all ON board perished, AZ one
point on the shore two hundred and sixty.
five corpses have been washed ashore.
The steamer Irors;dos t,rndorod og
Grand Haven M;oh;',n d,s;n'. VI
s,orn, Nnnda,, anJ 80, &C lie 80 80
persisted The loss of life il not known
but l8 bodies have been nicked mn N,
schooners went ashore near Grand Haven
during the day.
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tbo o,,r,or aad;n', ,.;,h 'a 49,, .u"Py 'pi
Tia ae9 ~ ;nasoa.o ~ psarl,, vs." Ls,s
million " ' u "'a9 ia" "
Tha so,. eu, NJ Ia,
that corta;n I;am,an"n. -" a.Io u 80,
returned from three years cn,ise on tbe
steamer Benicia, in the Asiatie SQUADRON,
be sent back to that squadron. with orders
10 report TO the Admiral cOmmandIny WIN
is to keep him there until his debts
amounting to several thousand dollars ara
all payed. This unusual nroceed;no has
been rendered necessary nv tho numerous
financial delinoucpcies recently reported
to the Department from that onarter and
is n serious warning 10 other reckless debt
contractors ?
Tha form. on ,,t;oh ,ho c..u 1,;..
=, ,ha nan,o;i. hnIJ M o'9 Nv i"I ran
Rem, and o,hn, ran.u,; VIZ .,?n' rena
j.st aaroad - snrrond". ,h";, - nasus'
~ Ma..aaa asa ,ha. ~, sn'', LIS .essisas;o'l
n ;au ,haraof ,raa, ae ,o Snou ,ose ~,
Upper Missouri known as Juditb's Basin
and that the limited States should set onari
81 600 600 10 he held in trust far their
benefit md sbould nrevent hunting ~
game in their country These terms ara
10 he ,nnrove1 Inv rooa,oss Should ,bav
l.:fil ,.. cnno nno -. q ,'-I.ty