The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-06-14
Items of News.

General John e. Breckenridge, of Ken
lucky, will deliver Masonic grafton, in
Memphis, on the Gath.
Over one hundred swapping turtles were
shipped from Salisbury to Philadelphia on
"Wednesday last.
Sporadic cholera has been reported at
Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, and
also at Washington city
In Lafayette, Indiana, is a church choir
that has not had quarrel for six long
weary months.
Three boys and girl were contributed
to Milwaukee's census by an enterprising
German matron last week.
The bees are said to be dying in great
numbers around Wilmington, n. c., and
the prospect for honey is slim.
The Mammoth Cave is for sale price
100000. That pretty little sum is all
the heirs ask for their immense mole in the
ground
The Danbury Ne,cs says A Danbury
man who bought second hand beadstead
at auction has sent it to Prof Agassiz, the
eViCUIdtcu eHtuHlOlOblst
The press of Mexico fayors a demand
upon the U. S. for PREPARATION for the viola
ton of territory in Col. McKenzie's raid on
the Kickapoos
The railway companies Of Illonis are
preparing to conform their tariffs and reg
ulations to the requirements of the new
law of the State against exhorbtant rates
and unjust determinations,
Admiral Raphael Semmes, of the Ala
bama, attended wedding in Newbury-
port, Massachusetts,, last Thursday. Own
ers Of vessels destroyed by him were well
represented in the company.
A conference of the Postmasters of the
leading cities of the United States is to be
held in Washington. 1t will take into
consideration the improvement of our local
postal service.
The Illinois Legislature has prohibited
the sale of prize packages on the rail
roads in that State, and the Pennsylvania
Central Road does not permit the sale of
immoral publications in its cars.
The Iron Association met on Friday the
9th inst, in Pittsburg for the purpose Of
fixing the scale of prices. 1t was agreed to
leave the prices for manufactured iron
unchanged, and to reduce the price of nails
30 cents per key on all sizes.
The Indian superintendent of Mon
tana, Oregon, and Arizona are abolished,
and those of California and New Mexico,
Washington Territory, and the Southern
Superintency are retained.
The trial of ex-senator Pomeroy, on the
charge of bribery begins in the District
Court at Topeka, Kansas, on the 10th
Eminent counsel will appear on each side.
The trial in expected to be protracted and
sensational.
The first grasshopper story ofthe season
comes to us from Texas, and is to the effect
that the jumping orthopterous insects in
that section are taking the corn off level
with the ground, and are eating up all the
fences
A dispatch from San Francisco says
that Lieut.. Almy was shot and killed by
the Apaches, at San Carlos, Arizona, the
9th of June. The Indian policy of the
Administration is not success in pacify-
ing the Indian.
A stock train aud gravel train came into
collision on the Lake Shore and Michigan
Railroad, at Sandusky, on Saturday. Six
men were injured, one of whom has since
died. Fifteen head of cattle and two
hundred and fifty sheep were killed and
injured.
Judge Davis granted, on the I'd inst,
an adjournment of the trial of William NJ.
Tweed until October The adjournment
was granted on an affidavit of physicians
to the effect that to proceed with the trial
now would cndanger the life of John
Graham, Tweeds leading counsel.
A Farmers Convention in Washington,
Iowa, ON Monday, by resolution denounced
the Iowa Legislature for failing to pass a
law regulating railroad rates, and declare
that no candidate for the Legislature will
be supported who will not pledge himself
to vote for such law, and to refuse to &C.
cept passes or any other petty brides from
railroad corporations.
An official statement of the Oranges
organized previous to May 10 gives the
following interesting facts ARKANSAS, Is
California, 8; Georgia, 16 Illinois, 43l
Indiana, l42; Iowa, 1907 Kansas, 12S
Michigan, "a; Minnesota, 2l9 Missis.
sippi, 112; Missouri, 245 Nebraska, 100
Ohio, AZ South Carolina, 11S; Tennessee
ID; Vermont, %; Wisconsin, 140-mak.
ing an organization in the United States
of 1877 Oranges, with an aggregate mem.
bership of over 100000"
The suit of Mrs. Co.'S against the New
York Mutual Life Insurance Company fol-
recovery of the amount of the policy on
her husbands life was decided in the
United States Circuit Court, Baltimore, on
Thursday of last week in favor of the
plaintiff. The other three Companies will
probably pay up at once, as this was test
case. Mrs Goss will in this event be en-.
titled to 5000, this being the aggregate
amount insured in the four companies.
A correspondent of the Baltimore
american, writing from Annapolis, an
nounces the failure, after two trials, Of
O'Keefe, the newsboy naval cadet of thii
city, and Conyers, the colored cadet, II
pass the necessary examination before thu
Board They had both previously failed
at the examination in February, aud OF
the second aud more recent trial, which
had been given to them in a spirit o.
leniency, they again failed to come up t.
the mark. The result will be that the
Board win recommend to the Navy Depart
ment at Washington, that they, with tn,
other unsuccessful candidates, will b,
dropped from the list of the possible
American Admirals of.the future.
The New York Court of Appeals hm
granted Edward s. Stokes new trial
The substantial point on which the judg
ment Of the Court below was reversed wal
the same on which Judge Davis granted
the stay of proceedings, viz: that Judg'
Boariman erred in charging the jury tina