The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-05-24

$4,000
day, Cd day Of june.
Oakes Ames failed once for seven mil.
lions, and In two years paid every cent
with interest.
The value Of the annual mineral produc-
ton OF Pennsylvania Is estimated ut SIG.
POS, 800. S''
Barnum Is looking for site 10 phila-
delphia to place his show on sight during
the centennial celebration.
Il is rumored that the legitimists aud
Orleanists have combined in a movement
for the overthrow of President Thiers.
England is said to be the only country
in Europe in which corporal punishment
is retained as part of school discipline.
Up to "Wednesday, orders for % 900 900
of postal cards had been supplied. The
manufacturers are making 100000 daily.
Mrs. Margaretta Siebold, aged So, com
mitted suicide in Baltimore, on Saturday
by hanging herself with handkerchief to
her bed-post
A Mississippi quack is making a fortune
by selling to the negroes a nostrum which
he warrants to turn their wool into long,
straight hair.
Nearly two thogand people are annu-
ally killed or injured by horses and vehi-
cles in the streets Of London.
The steamer Sirius, of the North Ger.
man line, which sails to-day from Balti.
more for Bremen, will take as part of her
cargo 5000 barrels of petroleum.
A mare owned by Martin Delaney trot.
ted 245 miles in As hours, on the Driving
Park, at st. Paul, Mimi, on the 18th and
18th instants.
The late rains in Wilkes county, n. c..
produced tremendous freshet in the Yad.
kin river, which did almost incalculable
destruction to private property.
The Khan of Khiva is greatly alarmed
at the approach of the Russians, and has
ordered levy en- masse to resist their an
proach.
The change just made in the Internal
Revenue system displaces 220 assessors
and 1900 assistant assessors, and saves the
Government about 81, 100000 annually.
There are in the United States not far
from 1000 military bands, with capital
of nearly $4,000 600 invested in musical
instruments, music, &c.
Plainville, Conn. has boarded up many
OF its streets on account of the prevalence
of smallpox, vaccination and disinfectants
being apparently beyond defence.
A gallery in Sing Sing fell Sunday
morning, carrying down number of pris-
oners with it. One convict was killed.
and several were seriously injured.
VIM. NJ. Cohen reporter for the New
Orleans Picay,me has been arrested on
the charge of attempting to assassinate
Gov, Kellogg, on the 7th instant.
Upwards of seyenty-fye vessels. having
on board about three million bushels of
grain, are reported to have passed Detroit
from Chicago since the opening of the
lake navigation,
At a recent sale of Leicester sheep from
the hocks of Lord Polworth, an English
breeder, one ram brought $3.50, with one
exception the highest price ever paid for
a Leicester sheep. The average of the
sale was $685.
Five noted urderers-Devine at San
Fran cisco, Mortimer at Sacramento, Iu-
signapi at Morristown, Nixon at New
York, and 0Neal in Illinois-paid the
penalty Of their crimes on the scaffold, on
Friday Of last week.
A dispatch from ST. Louis, dated May
10, says a severe hail aud wind storm
passed over that city, prostrating chin
ncys, breaking windows and doing meal
culablc damage to gardens and orchards
in the suburbs.
The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs is
somewhat apprehensive of Indian troubles
in Arizona, as the Government finds itself
unable to keep its promise to feed the In
dams on reservations, owing to the failure
of the appropriation for the current fiscal
year.
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AZ the sale OF short-horn stock owned
twenty.one COWS ayeraoed over 1907 nav