The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-07-19
Items of News.


potatoes promise well.
Adyices from various parts of New York
State say the crops are less affected by the
prolonged drought than was expected
A furious wind and rain storm passed
over Wallacctown, Canada, Monday doing
great damage to buildings.
A meeting of the Southern Dental Asso-
citation win be held at Baltimore on the
29th inst.
One hundred aud thirteen deaths from
cholera morbus were reported in New York
last week.
The forests of Wisconsin, Michigan and
Minnesota produced last year 800 900 900
feet of timber.
Commodore William NJ. Glendy, United
States Navy, on the retired list, died on
Wednesday in Baltimore, aged ~ years.
TIE woods are ON FIRE between Cape
MAY Court House and SWANS Station, in
New jersey.
David Nesbitt shot Mary A. Hopwood,
at Lindsay, Canada, on Saturday, because
she I" refused to accept his attentions
Out of 49S deaths reported last week in
Philadelphia 800 were under two years of
age, and ofthat number 50 died of cholera
iniantum.
Detectives ON Tuesday arrested at
Piedmont, John Heating, who is charged
with having perpetnted the recent heavy
forgeries in Washington city bonds
Portions of Ohio were again devastated
by heavy storms OF rain and wind ON
Tuesday, and several persons were killed
by lightning.
A fire at the Navy Department build.
ing, in Washington, Tuesday morning,
caused loss of nearly sl2,00O. None of
the more important papers were destroyed
The barn Of Il. l.. Monsoon at Whately,
Mass, was burned on Monday, with forty
tons of tobacco, twenty-five tons of hay,
five cows and two hogs. Loss $4,000.
1t is said that some of jeff. Dayis's
former slaves serenaded him while he was
in st. Louis, and that he invited them
in; and after little chat about old times
made each present
The crop reports from Arkansas, North
ern Mississippi and Western Tennessee are
favorable, although drought is now feared
In some portions of Mississippi the cotton
caterpillar has appeared.
Sixty-three Senators of the United
States have drawn their 'back pay but
fifteen of these have returned the amounts
received by them to the Treasury, leaving
forty-eight who have pocketed the "grab. "
Agricultural laborers are so scarce in
some parts of France that the Minister of
War has decided that, for the approaching
harvest, all the soldiers who can be spared
from their regiments shall be placed at the
disposal of the agriculturists.
A sailboat was capsized by squat off
Willow Grove, ten miles below Baltimore
Monday evening, and four young men
were drowned, namely Miller Spence,
aged II; Jacob Andrew, 81; Baldwin
Wilson, Is, and George Cook, 20.
\ golden wedding was recently celebra-
ted at Cumberland, r. l., at which were
present, as guests, the minister who mar
ried the now aged couple, and another
couple who had acted as groomsman and
bridesmaid
A lady in Lynn, Mass, recently sold a
bag of rags TO a peddler, and afterwards
remembered that she had hidden notes and
other yaluables to the extent of $1,000 in
it. She started on the track of the ped
dlcr, found him at Salem, and WAS fortu-
nate enough to recover her treasure.
A vigilance committee is doing thorough
work in Wetzcl county, West Virginia.
1t has hanged one man and driven five
families, who were implicated in recent
robberies and outrages, out of the State,
after burning their houses and destroying
the improvements they had made
The cholera has not yet disappeared
from the West. In the cities sanitary
precautions have done much to abate its
prevalence, but in the southwest corner Of
Indiana the disease is raging fearfully
Thirty-seven deaths have occurred in tho
little town Of Mount Vernon, and business
there has been suspended by the sconrge
The board of State fishery police ended
at Annapolis on "Wednesday the investiga-
ton of the charges of neglect of duty, etc.,
preferred against Capt. Timmons, comman-
der of the State fishery police, by the grand
jury of Talbot county, Md. The board
unanimously exonerated Captain Timmons
of all the charges preferred.
Reports from all sections of Virginia
represent the oats crop as the finest seen
in the State for many years. The wheat
has been harvested, aud will hardly yield
an average. Copious rains have been
general throughout the State the past two
weeks, and the corn crop is very promis-
ing.
The Oldest stove in the United States is
one which warns the hall of the capital in
Richmond, Virginia. IL was made in
England, and sent to Richmond in 1870,
and warmed the House of Burgesses fol
sixty years, before it was removed to its
present location, where it has been for
the last thirty years.
At a meeting of the Trustees of the
Maryland Agricultural College held in
Baltimore, on Tuesday, Gen. Samuel Jones
was elected President in place Of Rev.
Samuel Register, resigned. Gen. Jones
is graduate of West Point, and was
formerly one of the instructors at that
institution. He is now professor in the
University of California
In the vicinity of Broekton, Wis, u
family named shaddock, consisting of the
parents and two children, were riding
through the woods to a celebration on the
Fourth, when a tree fell upon the wagon
instantly killing the mother and one chic
and knocking an eye out of the othel
child. The man received such injuries
about the head that he was delirious al
last accounts and in a critical condition
The Loudoun (ya,) Enterprise say
that corps of engineers has been organl
Eed to survey the route from Martinsbarg
West Virginia, to Hamilton, Va, and tia