The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-08-09
Items of News.

IOT steallnS loaI Oh Dreau OH luesuay.
A Buffalo minister recently baptised %
children with water which he brought from
the Jordan, in the Holy Land.
A lady, and not even a married lady,
has been licensed to soemnize marriages in
Kittery, Me.
Helmbold is living in the Champs
Elysees, having abandoned Buchu for
Paris green.
Postmaster John Ii. Won Gesel, of
Harrington, Del, has been arrested ON
charge of embezzlihg money from regis
tered letter
The general drift of opinion in Ten
nessee, Kentucky and Mississippi is un.
favorable to the formation of the new State
of Nashoba
Five million two hundred and sixty
thousand postal cards were distributed last
week, which was about two million in excess
Of any previous week.
In Newark, N. j., Christian Dinner,
aged IL years, has been arrested for kill
ing Edward Lawley, aged 4 years, by
"wilfully throwing him down stairs
The grasshoppers appeared on Saturday
in several places in Iowa and Nebraska,
and deyoured the corn and oat crops
The wheat having been harvested, is safe.
The Government surveyors in Northern
and Northwestern Nebraska have disco
vered immense tracts of pine lands in re-
gions heretofore supposed barren.
NNI;tnba,ton De- "a, Sat,,eIn,, a,
laborer, named Frank Donnelly, fell
against circular saw in Browns saw mill
and had the upper part of his head cut
off.
A blowing viper, five feet four inches
long, was killed on the farm of Mr.. Samuel
Alexander, near Waynesboro, Pa. last
week. 1t had horn about two inches
long on its tail
The Texas cattle plague is raging in
northwestern Missouri, where in the past
two wecksit has carried of thousands of
cattle. In Nodowsy county alone, it has
caused loss of $4,000.
On motion of defendants in the Credit
MObilier suits who desire an extension of
time to file their answers TO the Govern
.,. LIN I,J,.o Ch;..,.,, =. u...r.J
,on r. 81 WnnJ. :" ao.
e,s A. ~ 80 "' :" |''o-
rour men naniea hc.aiii' hilsinan
Red Rock station Montana, on informa-
ton, who robbed Wells, Fargo & Co.'S
Express in July, 1871, when slG,O 900 was
s'olen'
what with restless disturoers on our own
SIDE OF tue no Crahde, ut Brownsville,
Texas, and plunderlng marauders from
the Mexican SIDE the military ofheerS
there VIII nave Their hands full IN trying
to prevent the two countries from being
emoroled'
Three men were burned to death on
farm at Butler, Pa, last Saturday evening
They were boring for oil, and were in the
well when the oil was struck. As soon as
u reached inc surface IL caught hre, ana
o"1eu up =, 20, ne'S.i' ol one hunurca iee'
OF more Inc pouies were recovered
Peaches are arriving freely from Della
ware and Maryland, but there is general
complaint that the quality is poor. The
supply also promises to be much less than
last year. Prices range from 81 SO to So
80 per basketball is to say, about 80
cents in advance of last seasons quota
tions, Saysa New York paper
Several weeks since n colored man nj.
tempted to commit felonous assault
upon young white woman in Elkhorn
township, near Frankfort, Ky. and was
driven from the county. Last Saturday
night he returned, and was shot dead by u
party of citizens
At Baltimore. on Monday, Louis p.
Krumm. cigar dealer, was shot in His
store BY the accidental discharge of gun
which was carelessly handled by Nicholas
Rich. The contents of the Gun entered
Crumm's face, and his injuries are believed
to be fatal