The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-03-29

ed down II 10 DC rebuilt on plan originally
devised by Sir Christopher Wren for Lon.
don after the great fire. The blank space.
which covers some sixty odd acres, is To be
intersected by five streets, forming the
radii of the segment Of circle, whose
centre will be the post Office, and whose
circumference will pretty near correspond
with the sea margin. The intervening
streets will form the chords of the circle.
running at equal distances from one another
In word, the ground plan of the new
town will be that Of cobweb or cart
wheel.
Captain Jack, clearly, is not person to
be wooed to quiet ways by the gentle coo.
ings of the reverend gentlemen who are
doing or trying to do, the work Of the
Peace Commissioners. The latest intelli-
gence from the lava beds is Of a character
to warn our troops to get their rifles ready.
Captain Jack is not only making oyertures
to the klamath Indians TO join him, in
renewal Of hostilities, but is no way back
ward in giving notice that as soon as the
grass grows he will leave the lava beds,
burn the ranches and kill the settlers.
A monster rock fish, weighing four
hundred and iifty-fye pounds, was captured
by Mr.. John Bockcle, ut Yellow Bluff.
Florida, few days since 1t was shipped
north by way Of Savannah, to a noted
dealer in fish at the Fulton market, New
York. This monster specimen of the
fnny tribe, was captured in a shad net
and measured over seven feet in length
Heretofore, the largest member Of this
species Of fish, was captured in the Poto
mac, and weighed one hundred and fifteen
pounds.
Mrs. Fanny Hyde, who killed Watson
in Brooklyn, on the 26th Of January, 1872,
and has failed to appear on her second trial,
was arrested by detectives in Washington,
on Sunday, and taken to New York. Her
first trial, it will be remembered, termina-
ted in the disagreement Of the jury, and
she was released on bail On being ares
ted she said she had no idea of avoiding
trial, that she had been ready for trial some
time, but had not been notified to appear
United States Treasurer Spinner on Mon
day, received from Franklin, Pa, two
large boxes containing the charred remains
Of 100000 in United States bonds and
notes, national bank notes and Pacific
Railroad bonds, which Thomas +. Ander-
son, the crazy cashier of the Lamberton
Bank, attempted to destroy by burning.
The notes were sent to Washington for
identification.
On Monday morning Joseph Burton,
negro, committed an outrage on the daugh.
ter Of John Iank, a respectable citizen
residing near Rehoboth station, Sussex
county, Del The negro was captured and
lodged in jail. He is represented as a
hardened wretch and makes light of the
crime The girl was only fifteen years
old.
A colorcd man named Charles Briggs
has been playing the detective among the
Worcester, Mass, liquor-sellers, in conse-
quence Of which some half-doEen of them
have enriched the state treasury, but the
informant is threatened with the death
of a spy if he falls into the hands of the
nervous dealers in ardent.
The business failures in this country for
1872 sum up largely in advance of those
of the previous year. The whole number
in 1872 was 1859, and the amount Of
liabilities is 1921 ,056,000 In 1871 the
failures only reached 2,915, and the la
bilities sss,, 252 900.
Commodore Vanderbilt has given an
other five hundred thousand dollars for the
purpose of erecting n large seminary on
the grounds Of the Morayian Church, ut
New Dorp, Staten Island, to be built upon
the plan Of the seminary at Bethlehem,
Penn. also endowed by the Commodore,
An account ofthe murder of an old lady
and a little girl in Cole county, Illinois,
was published some days since. VIM. l..
Langston, the son of the murdered woman,
has confessed to the horrible deed. He
gives as his excuse that chs wife persuad-
ed him."
A lady in New Haven who had been
dumb for several months, was violently
startled by one Of the members of the fam
lily recently, and when she recovered from
the shock found that her speech was com
pletely restored.
On Thursday evening of last week jesse
w. Uppercue, whose name has figured so
prominently before the trials in the Grim
inal Court Of Baltimore city, and finally
acquittal, was married to Miss Laura Hill
debrandt at her parents residence.
The bark Emma C. Litch6eld arrived at
New York on Saturday from Rio Janeiro,
with yellow fever on board, two of her
crew having died of the disease. The
schooner II. Brewster, at New York from
Rio, lost one man from yellow fever.
An exemplary young man of Lowell,
Mass, Edwin Slavin by name, tired of
slayin' at manual toll for a livelihood,
knocked his father in the head with a
bludgcon the other night, and robbed him
Of S35.
At Danyers, Mass, boy of Ia "phyed
hanging" last Saturday, with fatal result.
He used wheelbanow as PLATFORM and
the barrow canting over left him suspen-
ded. He was discovered soon afterwards,
dead.
Frederick w. Cooper, distributing clerk
Of the Boston Postofdce, has been arrested
for robbing the mails He confesses that
he stole s315, but is supposed to have
taken much more.
Two hundred cases Of horse influenza are
reported in Los Angeles, Cal, aud the
disease is spreading rapidly. The disease
is raging throughout Southern California
and Northern Arizona.
According to the new directory Of San
Francisco, the population Of that city i
18S,323, being an increase ofabout 10000
during the year. The total includes IL
900 Chinese and 1850 colored people.
At Morristown, n. j., on Saturday
Judge Dalrymple refused new trial ia
Luigi Lusignani, an Italian wife murder
or, and sentenced him to be hanged on the
lat of May.
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