The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-10-25
Items OF News.

$4,000 weekly,
Australia is reported to have sent
s5,OOO,0OO worth of preserved meat to
England last year.
Goldsmith Maid, trotting against time
Wednesday, at Dexter Park, Chicago,
made mile in 2:17!.
A telegram from Calcutta to the Lon
don Times says severe famine is threat
ened in Bengal.
1t is stated that more than si1ty.fvc
millions of postal cards have been used
during the past five months.
Mr.. Jacob Singmaster, of Stroudsburg,
Monroe county, Pa, is worth eight million
dollars
Seven cars full of eggs were sent East
on the Milwaukee and Northern Railway
in one train last week.
A frame dwelling in Toledo, Ohio, was
burned on Saturday, and man named
Kelly, his wife and grandchild persisted
in the flames
The scarcity of currency has locked up
an immense quantity of bullion ut Salt
Lake City. Silver now sells there at less
than seventy cents per ounce.
The money order clerk in the Atlanta
Georgia, post-ofhce, has disappeared, eav-
ing deficiency" in his accounts Ito an
amount that is unknown"
All but % miles of the Southern Mary
land Railroad is now graded. This road
will give the people of Southern Maryland
direct communication with Baltimore.
In Baltimore on Saturday morning,
Mrs. Christiana Pappler was thrown from
butcher wagon by a collision with street
car, and died few hours afterwards of
conclusion of the brain.
Snow fell at Oakland, in this State, on
Monday, to the depth Of eight inches
At Cranberry Summit, West Virginia, it
fell to the depth of Is inches Also at
Frostburg, Nd, and at Dayton Ohio,
A delegation of Pittsburgers were at
Washington Tuesday asking for II suspen-
sion Of all criminal proceedings against
Colonel Stewart, the detaulting Postmaster,
in consideration of the fact that he is about
to refund the amount cmbeIzlcd
The New York Clearing House has re-
solved to resume currency payments ON
the 9th inst; also that its certificates shall
be redeemed in 20 per cent instalmcnts,
payable on the 10th, 22d, 18th, 9th and
Both insts
The Grow Indians complain that the
Government has given them in exchange
for reservation of $500 900 acres one of
2,250, 900 acres, on which there is neither
wood, water, nor grass, and where they
cannot raise any corn to cat.
The United States Marshals in East
Tennessee and Western North Carolina, OH
Monday arrested large number of coun-
terfeiters, whom the secret service detec-
tives had been 'spotting" for five months
The East Tennessee prisoners were taken
to Knoxville.
Secretary Robson is busily engaged in
the Polaris investigation. lie has recen-
thy stated that all the facts elected corro-
borate the theory that Captain Hall died
natural death, and no suspicion of having
poisoned him rests on any of the officers or
the crew.
The Tabernacle Tent in Baltimore,
was destroyed during the storm Monday
morning. Religious services had been held
in it under the auspices of the National
Camp Meeting Association, and for two
years past it had been pitched in various
cities of the Union.
1t is stated that U. s. Attorney Swope
at Pittsburg has discovered where the
fibrous paper used in making counterfeit
notes has been manufactured nlso the
names of the makers. 1t is expected that
che counterfeiters who executed the dan
gerous $500 note will soon be in custody
The National Life Insurance Company
of New York has gone into the hands ola
receiver. The assets of the Company are
s5l4, 900, aud its liabilities s713,000.
Not over 100000 of available assets
remain for the widows and orphans of the
insured. 1t is comforting to know that
Jay Cooke had nothing to do with this
company.
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his cbanol Will :, nrsuar Em;, pa1,y,
"A cousin of the BisRop. has been arrested
for the crime which Is supposed To have
been melted by the fact tbat the Ri,hon
mad inherited Nil the fortune of pellet;ers
father. n wealthy Frencbmau
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time Al some other places martial d;s.
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