The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-11-22

Captain Matthew c. Perry, U. S. N, Il
son Of Co. umodore Perry of the war of
1872, died On Sunday, in New York city.
A girl at Vienna, Indiana, lately swal.
lowed wasp, which stung her in the
throat and she died from suffocation ON
account of the swelling.
Raleigh, N. G., is afflicted with eden
of wild dogs > they inhabit swamp and
creek near the city, and refuse to be driven
away.
Mary Lutz employed by Dr. L. c.
Horn, Baltimore was burned to death ON
Monday morning She used coal oil in
making fire.
Henry Horst, injured on the Indiana
polls and st. Louis Railroad, while
riding on a free pass has been awarded
$4,000 damages.
Two of Yasquez's gang of outlaws muir
dered sheep herder in California on the
18th instant, and one of the murderers,
named Chaves, was captured and lynched.
The small pox is increasing in Montreal,
and it is complained that the authorities
are doing nothing to prevent it becoming
epidemic.
A special to the New Orleans Times
reports that seven of the nine negroes
implicated in the Grant Parish outrage
have been killed by citizens.
George Edward Curtin, "the boy muir
dcrer," of Acton, Mass, has been senten-
ced to the State Reform School during his
minority He is nearly ten years of age.
Samuel Adams, organist of a Methodist
church in Brooklyn, dropped dead while
playing the organ during services on Sun
day evening,
Mrs L. NJ. Stanton, widow of the ex-
Secretary of War, died on Tuesday at
Chestnut Hill, near Philadelphia. She
had been i'll for long time.
The Postmaster General has issued an
order reducing the fee for registered letters
from fifteen to eight cents. The reduction
will not take effect until the LIST of
january.
An employe of the Howe Sewing Ma
chine Company at Norfolk, Va, was
caught on Saturday night in the act of
attempting to break open and rob the
companys safe.
A warrant was issued at Providence, X,
l., for the arrest of Stephen Wardwell,
defaulting Cashier of the Commercial
National Bank, but he could not be found,
having disappeared.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs
received information on Tuesday of the
arrival of the Modocs in charge of Captain
Wilkinson at Baxter Springs, near their
new home in the Indian Territory.
The steamship Cleopatra, which arrived
at New York on Monday, brought back
the newspaper mails she took ON her return
trip to Havana. The Spanish authorities
would not permit them to be landed.
The Mobile Register announces the death
at Pensacola of 5. S. Mallory, Secretary
of the Navy of the Confederacy during
the war, but since then living in complete
retirement.
While $50 workmen have been added
to the force in the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
work has been suspended on the Spanish
iron-clad, Arapiles, undergoing repairs
there.
The foxes in Warren county, Pa, are
losing their GINNING. One recently came
near farmer, who was
standing among some low bushes in
rayine, and who seized the animal by the
tail and killed it.
The assessment of real and personal
in Philadelphia for 1874 shows a
total of s54s, 243, 535, being an increase
on the valuation for 1873 of S2l ,07S ,26T.
OF the whole amount, s539, O03, 6o2 is set
down for real estate.
An anti-Chinese Convention was recently
held in San Francisco, and series of
adopted in favor of the abroga-
ton of our treaty with China, and against
immigration and the employment of
Chinese labor.
A large and excited meeting of work
ingmen of New York was held at Cooper
Institute on Saturday evening, and innam-
matory speeches were made, demanding
that the city officials take some action to
give workingmcn employment
As winter approaches the smallpox is
again threatening to become epidemic
1t is already prevalent in Montreal, Clcvc-
land, Cincinnati and other places Due
should be taken against it.
Henry Gates, of Hopewell, Bedford
county, Pa, accidentally killed his grand
son while firing at a chicken. After the
ball had struck the latter it passed through
a barn door and entered the face of the
lad below the eye. The boy fell dead
beside his mother.
At San Francisco, on Friday night, Jo-
seph Faraday and Charles Dodge went out
OF the theatre to take drink, when Dodge
was suddenly taken i'll and died. Fara-
day, finding that he would be accused of
poisoning his friend, committed suicide by
blowing out his brains.
A Missouri girl, on her wedding day,
sold her piano and bought a sewing ma
chine and material enough for a suit for
her husband and herself and at once set to
work making them up. Her husband let
out the secret, and in week her four /.
sisters were all married
DIR. John T. Holland, of Queen Anne's
county, Nd, has recovered from the Com
missioners of that county 800 damage for
injury to horse sustained in crossing
defective bridge. Let County Commits
sioners look well to the bridges and high
ways.
Joseph Corwin Cloud, the man who set
out, some four months ago, to row in his
boat by canal and river from Philadelphia
to New Orleans, was picked up, Oct. Is,
five miles above the town of Plaquemine,
Louisiana, about ninety-fve miles from
New Orleans, in dying condition from
exposure and malaria. lie was taken to