The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-06-07

from the Massachusetts, Medical Society
for practicing homeopathy.
The trial Of DR.. West for the murder of
Henry Q. Turner, colored, began at Dover,
Del, on Tuesday.
Larned, son of Col VIM Richardson, of
Frederick, was accidentally drowned in the
Monocacy on Tuesday.
The spring meeting of the Maryland
Jockey Club was brought to close on
Friday both with an exciting steeple-chase.
Senator Bayard, of Delaware, viii de-
liver the annual Grafton at the University
of Virginia on the I'd ofJuly.
There were three murders in Washing
ton, d. G., between Saturday morning and
Sunday morning. All colOred.
The Memphis AraLnche says this
years cotton planting in the Southern
States will be the most extensive since the
war.
The War Department has finally adopted
the Springfield breech-loading system for
the manufacture Of small arms for the
army.
The "peach wecvil, new enemy to
this luscious fruit has made its appear
ance in Sussex county, Del, and is DANA
ging the peach prospect.
A young man accidentally shot and
killed his sister at Pennington, Kent
county Del, on the Goth ult., while care
lessly handling pistol.
The family carriage which Thomas
Jefferson imported from Europe was re-
Gently repaired at Staunton carriage shop
by order of the Virginian who now owns
and uses it.
Professor Wise, the areonaut, proposes
to cross the ocean in balloon, starting
from Boston common on the 4th of July,
if Boston will pay the bill.
One negro murdered another in Bruins
wick county, Va. Saturday. This is the
tenth murder reported in the State during
the last two weeks, mostly among negroes.
The wife of Senator Schurz has become
heir to legacy of 100000 Prussian
thalers, or about $4,000, by the death of
her uncle, lately resident of Hamburg,
Germany.
The standard adopted by the Baltimore
peach packers for bushel boxes is 8 inches
deep, IA inches wide, and PA inches
long inside, divided by half-inch parti-
ton.
In Duchess county, n Y, the epizootic
has made its appearance in the stock sta
bles Those that escaped last fall and
winter have been attacked in more vio-
lent form this season.
Five persons convicted Of murder in the
first degree, and one convicted of outrage,
are in jail in Baltimore OF the six, three
are white and three are colored men.
Three have been sentenced to execution.
Melvin NJ. Cohen was arrested in New
Orleans, on the Goth ult., charged with
firing the shot at Kellogg, the usurping
Governor of Louisiana. Cohen is an ut
tache Of the Picdyune, and claims that he
can prove an alibi.
In the Criminal. Court of Baltimore
city, on Saturday, James West, colored,
was convicted of murder in the first de-
gree. He was charged with numbering
Anna West, colored, by crushing her skull
with Ratchet on the 18th of March last.
In Baltimore city, on Saturday night,
John A. Curtis stabbed William Sheaf
with butcher knife. The knife was sent
through the lung, and death almost imme-
diately ensued. Sheaf was arrested both
are colored.
A lady in Reading, Pa who put out
several pieces of lace on the grass, was
mystified by their strange disappearance.
They finally were discovered in tree, to
which robin had carried them to weave
into its nest,
St. Paul, Minnesota, warns all other
cities to forever hereafter hold their peace
unless they can at once produce an older
Mason than Mr.. David Stiles, who recently
kept his one hundredth and eighth birth
day.
Mr. Robert Bonner is to raise n monu-
ment to Mrs. Sarah Parton Fanny FERN
in Mount Auburn, near Boston. Ii is to
consist Of an Italian marble pedestal on a
granite plinth, surmounted by a Roman
cross, wreathed with fern leaves;
Joe Woods, negro, brutally outraged
Mrs. Elizabeth Hampton, widowed white
woman, near Versailles, Rutherford county,
Tennessee, few days since, and then
crushed her skull with an axe. Woods is
in prison, and strong threats are made Of
lynching him if his victim dies, which is
highly probable.
james b. Clay, grandson Of Henry
Clay, has forwarded to Regent Bowman,
for the museum at Ashland, Kentucky,
the coat which the statesman wore at the
Treaty of Client, in 1914. 1t is elegant
Nv wrought and trimmed with silk and
braid.
Mrs. Dempsey Jones and her sister,
Miss Dozier, living nine miles from Suf-
folk, Va, were murdered on Sunday by
robbers, while Mr.. Jones and the children
were at Sunday school. The house was
plundered by the murderers. A blood
stained club was found on the premises,
and blood-stained marks of bare feet dis
covered at the front entrance. It is said
there is clue to the murderers, and the
citizens are hunting them. A negro
named Jim Brown was arrested on Tues
day night, and has made full confession.
Mrs. Thomas Canning has been arrested
at Binghamton, N. Y, on suspicion Of
having caused the death of her mother
Rose Comfy, the examination OF whose
remains has been already reported. The
eoroner's inquest shows that Mrs. Canning
treated her mother cruelty, that she
frequently beat her and turned her out Of
the house to sleep in coal shed, and that
the old woman was twice driven out Of the
house by her daughter, on the day she
received the injuries which caused hel
death.
Captain Jack, the Modoc chief, whose
name has, Of late, been synonymous witt
treaehery, cunning and feroeity, was
brought into the Federal camp at Clear
Lake, on Sunday last. He surrendered
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