The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-04-12


the passengers, gave them life preseryers,
and they rushed on deck. A boat was
lowered with the women and children. but
by some accident was capszed befose reach
ing the water, throwing the women into
the water, but they were fortunately rescued
by the crew in another boat. Finally all were
pat in boats and made towards the shore.
but met huge field Of ice, on which they
walked until withcn ten feet Of the shore,
when the ice parted. A seaman had
brought plank, which was placed across
the chasm, over which they were all safely
taken. They lost all their clothing, several
ladies being in their night clothes. They
reached Rhinebeck, were cared for. and
forwarded to their destinations.
The recent heavy rains have caused n
Hood in both branches of the Susquehnnna,
At WilliamspOrt, on Monday afternoon,
the river was 10 feet above low-water mark
and slowly rising. About two million feet
of logs, which did not "pack" properly.
passed under the boom and were swent
down the current. At Sunbury the river
was reported yesterday within twelve
inches of the food Of 1865" The river
at Port Deposit, which has been very high
for over week, rose two feet on Monday
and at last accounts was still rising fast.
Some of the wharves were covered. and
alarming reports from above caused uneasi.
ness among the lumbermen.
A telegram from Gordonsville, Orange
county, Virginia, April 0, tells of terri
BILE coniagration which was raging in the
woods around that village 1t appears to
have originated in what is known as ''the
Green Spring neighborhood, . in the adj
joining county of Louisa, and at last ac
counts was rapidly preading, destroying
station and dwelling h. uses, and everything
in Its path. The track of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railway was rendered impossible,
and trains were delayed for hours
The beating of Caroline Fehring, by her
husband, George, on the 9Th of April in
New York, was one of dreadful brutality.
He tied her hands behind her and tied her
to bed post, and then with a rope beat
her until every inch of her body was COW
cred with stripes. He then Embossed her,
and when she fell to the floor exhausted he
kicked and otherwise maltrcated her. The
physicians believe that she is fatally injured.
The brute was committed to the Tombs.
The sugar crop in Louisiana has failed
so disastrously during the last two seasons
that this year the area devoted to the cane
will be much diminished, not only from
the above cause, but from the failure of
several New Orleans agents, which has
crippled the means Of the planter. In the
lower part of the State attention has been
turned by the sugar planters to the cult
walton of rice.
\ frightful accident occurred at Roehes-
ter, n. Y, Tuesday evening. 4 number
of persons were standing upon the uncom-
pleted wall of new building looking into
the river The food had washed away
the foundation of the wall, and suddenly
it give way, throwing ten or fifteen persons
into the water. They went over the Gen
nessce Falls, and probably most of them
are drowned
A special despatch to the New York
Herald says that the Peace Commissioners
have again failed to induce the Modoc
Indians to leave the Lava Beds and 90
upon their reservation. Captain Jack
says he has definitely concluded to remain
where he is, and the Commissioners have
telegraphed to Washington for further
instructions.
A large party of English farmers arrived
at New York, from Liverpool, on Wednes-
day, being the first installment of colony
of several hundred families from Dorset
shire. Their destination was understood
to be Western Minnesota, where they have
engaged six townships from the Northern
Pacific Railway Company.
A reporter for the New York Herald,
with characteristic enterprise, went down
in n diving suit into the wreck Of the At
lantic, and saw confused and ghastly
spectacle of dead men and women in
constant movement, from the current, as
though they were alive.
The Texas Legislature has unanimously
adopted a resolution requesting Governor
Davis not to grant the petition of Presi-
dent Grant and Secretary Delano for the
pardon of the notorious Indian Chiefs
Satanic and Big Tree, now in the Texas
penitentiary.
While John Langley was being lowered
into the Gordon mine, in Allegheny county,
Md, gu Monday morning, with horse
and cart, the horse, becoming FESTIVE
kicked the coupling loose, and all were
precipitated to the bottom, n distance of
los feet. Langley was instantly killed.
The Washington Sunday Herald thinks
that the Potomac fisheries will be failure
this season, and that the catch Of fish is
annually decreasing. More stringent laws
are needed to protect these fisheries, and
save the fish from wanton destruction.
A National Agricultural Congress will
meet in indianapolis, Indiana, on We'd
nesday, May2 The Convention will con-
slider matters of great interest not only to
the agricultural classes, but to the public
at large.
The London Times announces the death
of Lady Acton, the grandmother of Lord
Acton, and widow of Sir John Francis
Edward Acton, who was born A. ID. 1916
-l37 years ago.
Colonel w. II. Jeniier, of the army of
the Khediye of Egypt, has been for several
weeks visiting his former home in Balti-
more, and is now on his return to Egypt.
Professor Albert l.. Sumner, brother
of Hon. Charles Sumner, was lost on the
Atlantic. He was returning from resi-
dence of several years in Germany,
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves home in
Florida is said to be for sale. 1t Is de-
seribed as an unpretending mansion, stu
ated in small grove of orange trees.
Miss Ann Wallace, direct descendant
of him with whom the Scots formerly
practised phlebotomy, died recently in
Glasgow at the age Of lO3.