The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-07-12

New York iudulgcs IN yacht racing on
Sundays.
Local Option meetings are being held
in Baltimore.
Ten persons were drowned on Green
Lake, Wisconsin, on the 4ih instant.
At Bangor, Me-, gun was used to Gel
citrate the Fourth which was cast in l773.
An attack was made on colored Sab
bath school procession by some white row.
dies, in Baltimore, on Tuesday. Exam
pies should be made of such characters.
Prof. Thomas D. Baird, LII. D. principal
and also professor of the Baltimore City
College, died in that city on Wednesday
afternoon.
The Fall mcetingof the Maryland Jocky
Club will take place October 2lst, and
continue four days. Fifteen races will be
run, among thema steeple chase.
The earnings Of the Baltimore aud Ohio
Railroad and branches for June, 1873.
were 81 ,323,79T AZ, showing an increase,
as compared with June, 1872, of SILL
855.65.
A despatch from Vienna says an at
tempt was made on Tuesday to fire the Ex-
hibition building Correspondents of Lon
don journals, and other persons who have
returned from Vienna, hint that the build
ing will probably be burned soon
John Wallace, the counterfeiter, was
captured in Cumberland, Md. on Monday.
An effort was made to arrest him some
time ago, but he knocked the officer down
and escaped. He will brood over his
troubles in Baltimore City jail until his
case can be tried.
The farmers movement has taken root
in North Carolina The masters of the
various oranges met in Raleigh Wednes-
day and organized State Grange. A
State Constitutional Convention met at the
same time, which was presided over by
Hon. w. II. Battle.
A Washington correspondent who has
been examining the records Of the Pen
sion Office, has found on the list of
twenty-five of the surviving soldiers of the
Revolution eighteen who were century
old and upwards; FIVE more than 1Ol (;
four l02 two 1903; one 104; two 105 /;
two lO6, and one 100. A list of the
widows of soldiers of the Revolution at the
Pension Office gives the names of twenty
who lived to be 100 years old, and eleven
who reached the age Of 81
A case of mysterious shooting occurred
at Waterbury, Anne Arundel, county,
Md, on Saturday. A colored woman
named Laura Allen, was cleaning up a
room above the store at that place, when,
she alleges, she was shot by some one 1t
is supposed, however, that the woman took
some tobacco from box in which there
was breech-loading cartridge, and in put
ting the tobacco in her pipe the cartridge
got in also, and was thus exploded The
empty cartridge case was taken from her
wounded check, but the ball was nowhere
to be found.
A novel reaping match came off on last
Monday week in the vicinity of Bridgeton,
New Jersey between Samuel Penn, in his
S5th year, and David NJ. Woodruff, who
is in the seth year of his age. The grain
was reaped with the sickle of the olden
time. Upwards of25O people were present
on the ground to witness the contest.
Among them were persons over 80 years
of age, IL over 20, aud IL over CO. Each
of the contestants cut about feet in
width and distance of 81 rods in about
II minutes. The judges, with great
magnanimity, decided that on account of
the great skill and endurance displayed by
each, they were unable to decide which is
entitled to most praise
Seventy barrels of nitro-glycerine and
seven hundred barrels of giant powder
which were stored in one of the buildings
belonging to the Cambria Coal and Mining
Company, whose establishment is situated
about mile from the village of Batcsville,
Bedford county, Pennsylvania, exploded
on the 3D. of July. In the village the
houses rocked as if an earthquake had
come that way; the breaking Of window
lights and the cries of frightened women
and children were mingled in one horrible
din, while at the scene of the explosion no
trace could be found of the building, the
barrels, the hoops or the ntro-glycerinn
and powder. For distance of five or six
hundred yards around the spot where the
building stood the earth itself had been
dug out in huge trenches some sixty OF
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