The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-08-23

at 40 cents per pound,
The new census of Cumberland, Md,
shows the population to be 1899. By
the census Of 1870 it was S,056.
Prof Wise will not start on his prial
voyage across the Atlantic until sometime
between the LIST and 10th of September.
Bishop james, of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church, is reported seriously i'll, at
his residence, near Breckenridge N. j.
The Chicago Tribune says-"The re-
ports from all sections of the Northwest
regarding the crops indicate a most boun-
tiful harvest"
"Brick" Pomeroy is to deliver the an
nual address before the Washington Coun-
ty Agricultural Society, at Hagerstown,
at their next exhibition in September.
The Montgomery county Agricultural
Society will hold their annual Fair at
Rockville, on the 10th, 1th and 18th, of
September
Gen. Bradley I. johnson was at Oxford,
England, on the 22d of July, II is stated
on business for the State of Virginia, not
yet made public.
Henry Page, young man, formerly an
inmate of the Almshouse at st. Joseph,
Mo-, recently found himself the lucky heir
to a fortune of $4,000.
"Immense clouds" of grasshoppers
passed over Omaha on Saturday, going
southwark Part of them lighted upon
the country round Omaha and have begun
to eat up the corn.
Jos. p. Police, poor machinist of
Atlanta, Georgia, by the death of bache-
lor in Charleston, South Carolina, fell heir
to $4,000 worth of property, and 81 900
in gold.
A woman in Salem sold her bag of rags
to tin peddler and then remembered that
she had hid ia it her bank books and notes
to the value of nearly $4,000. She found
them in the stock of the pcddler.
Long Branch is not doing will this year.
A correspondent of the Tribune ascribes it
to the cost and extravaganza which have
now become the chief characteristics of the
place,
The next meeting of the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal board will be held in
Cumberland, Nd, September 10th, when
large delegation of Pittsburgers interested
in the extension of the work to that city
will attend.
Walter Handy, Lexington, Ky. July 30,
sold As Short Horn cows and heiiers at an
average price of s3OS.67, and II bulls at
an average price of sl62.94 The highest
price paid for a bull was $500 for COW,
S955.
A Dunkirk, n. Y editor is said recently
to have challenged n Buffalo editor to fight
duel, The Buffalo man accepted, named
broadswords as the weapons and the dist
ance thirty PAGES, neither party to approach
nearer.
James West, colored, convicted of the
murder of his wife, was executed in Bal
timorc yesterday. Levin Palmer, colored,
convicted of rape on white girl, was hung
at Towsontowu, Baltimore county, yester-
day.
John j. Snider, aged LOG years, who
served in the British army in our war of
the Revolution, and was subsequently
under Butcher in the battle of Waterloo,
died recently in the poor-house at States
vile, n. c.
Five hundred colored laborers of Wash
ington have Joined in petition to Presi-
dent Grant, in which they impeach the
Board of Public Works of that city, and
declare they have not received dollar for
THAR labor since March last
The barn Of Thomas c. Stiles, at Bed
ford, Mass, was burned on Saturday
morning, with five cows, two horses and
sixty tons of hay. An ncendiary FIRE at
Sedalia, Mo-, on Saturday, destroyed sl5,-
900 worth ofproperty.
An incendiary FIRE at Norwichtown,
Conn, on Friday night, destroyed car
rage factory and blacksmith shop and the
adjoining house of William Gill Mr..
GIN went to Ireland week ago, and his
wife and six children are left homeless by
this fire.
At Rockport, ILL.,, on Friday, Colonel
A. b. Durae got into quarrel with Cap
tain p G.. Morgan. "The lie passed"
from Morgan to Durae, whereupon the
latter struck the former in the head with
notary's seal, killing him instantly.
Durae gave himself up, and was held in
$1,000 bail.
While three men were at work on
church building in Lynn, Mass, on Satur-
day, the platform on which they were
standing gave way, precipitating them to
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