The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-05-10
Items of News.

of Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois. Louisiana
Michigan, Missouri, New York, Nebraska
Ohio and Pennsylvania, have promised to
attend the Congressional Conference 10
meet at 81. Louis, on the 18th. Only six
Of the Congressman invited have thus far
declined, and these only on account OF
business engagements. II has been de.
cidcd by tine Committee of Arrangements
that Mayor Brown, of ST. Louis. shall
preside at the conference, and special
committee has been appointed to report
the wants Of the Mississippi Valley most
needing Congressional attention. From
New Orleans, requests have been received
that the Chambers Of Commerce. or SINH.
lar organizations of the Mississippi Valley,
be invited to send delegates to the meet
ing
Out in the lava beds temporary peace
hangs over the scene Of the recent hostili.
ties. But il is only temporary, for the
military authorities having become con
WINGED by experience that it will require
trooIs in greater proportion than ten to
one to capture or kill the Modocs, they are
now making ready to send achievements
To the number Of thousands, il necessary.
This is General Sherman's plan; five or
six hundred soldiers are now on their way
to the region of the war, and another
regiment will soon be on the way Indian
scouts are also to be employed to help
along with the determination policy.
The details of the great strike in South
Wales show il to have been by far the
greatest that has ever occurred. The strike
lasted eleven weeks. The wages lost are
estimated at four million dollars. The
amount of coal and manufactured products
withheld from consumers had money
value of ten million dollars. Twenty
thousand men were idle nearly three
months, and the average weekly product
of the mines aud collieries affected by the
strike was 1917 tons of coal | 900
tons of finished iron, 800 tons of finished
steel, and 1000 tons of raw pig-iron.
James Cullen, or Collins, who murdered
Deputy Sheriff Hayden and Thomas
Hubbard in camp near Mapletou, Me-,
few nights since, was taken from the
officers who arrested him, by gang of
masked men, and lynched. Cullen is said
to have previously murdered lawyer in
New Brunswick Before he was lynched
he confessed his crime. and said he re-
GREETED that he had not killed the two
other men in the camp, and also his own
wife and child.
In st. Martins Parish, of Louisiana,
another conflict has broken out between
the people, who are resisting the collection
of taxes by the Kellogg usurper and the
Kellogg police who had gone up in that
locality to compel payment. At last ac
counts the police had been defeated and
threatened with further violence. When
and how will this miserable and prolonged
civil war on a small scale end
The Gettysburg Compiler says Also.
ciate Judge Peter All died at York last
Thursday, at an advanced age-S4 He
was elected only few years ago, and had
one-half his term to serve. He partici-
pated in the defence of Baltimore at North
Point. There were few more earnest and
out-spoken Democrats than Peter Ali, and
few more generally respected citizens than
he
Cloud county, Kansas, was visited by
another terrible storm, which caused de-
struction Of property and loss of life The
roof Of the house of farmer, named Sny-
der, was blown of, and Snyder, his wife,
five children and farm laborers were buried
in the snow, and persisted within few
miles of the house. A family, named
Uhrlicher, was also frozen TO death
Amos Scott, aged rs, a wealthy and
well known citizen of Chester county, died
at his residence, on Friday evening, from
eating meat which had been sprinkled with
arsenic to poison rats The meat lay on
the kitchen table, and Mr.. Scott, being
hungry, ate it, thinking the white powder
upon it was -four.
A waterfall two thousand feet high has
been discovered in British Guiana by the
government surveyor of that colony. In
1880 the great Kaieteus Fall, 800 feet
wide and $50 feet high, was discovered by
the same gentleman, who has rendered
many services to geographical science.
Arab horses, it appears, have become
scarce in some portions Of the Turkish
Empire. The Government has, therefore,
forbidden their expectation for seven years
from the 9th of April last 1t has also, on
account Of bad harvests, prohibited the
expectation of grain from several districts.
The Pennsylvania, the pioneer steam
ship of the Philadelphia and Liverpool line,
went out TO sea on Monday for a trial trip
that will last from four to six days. Soon
she will be regularly running, the only
passenger steamship crossing the Atlantic
with the Stars and Stripes at her peak.
The Troy Times now first mentions the
fact that a handsome weeping willow, in
the Fifth Street Presbyterian church yard
Of that city, is the growth of a twig cut
from the st. Helena tomb of Napoleon by
Com. Wilkes, and transplanted in the
cemetery by the lady to whom he sent it,
Capt, George C. Stoufer, formerly
master Of the ship Antarctic, native of
Baltimore, died on Tuesday night in
Brooklyn, n. Y. The deceased distin-
guished himself by being prominent in the
rescue of 250 soldiers at the wreck of the
steamship San Francisco in 1854
DR.. VIM. II. McGuffcy, Professor of
Moral Philosophy at the University of
Virginia, and author Of the well known
McGufeys school books, died in Char
lottesville on Monday after long illness.
A freight car is being fitted up in San
Francisco as saltwater aquarium, with
view of importing from the New Hamp-
shire coast load Of live fish, to stock
Californian waters.
Homer Lane, of New York, and John
Mcmahon, of Rutland, Vermont, have
signed articles to wrestle for 81 800 a side
and the championship of America, on May
80, at Troy.
The Smiths are triumphant in Philadel-
phia. They number 1851, against $40