The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-06-28
Items Of News.

a valuable deposit OF feldspar rock is re-
ported to exist in Cecil county.
The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad
Tunnel is completed and ready for use.
The crops in Northwestern Iowa arc
bending beneath the weight of the grass.
hoppers.
A Japanese paper thinks that the paper
manufacturers Of that country will soon be
able to supply the American market
Ten persons in family of eleven died
within a week in Dallas county, Texas,
recently. The survivor was baby.
Mr.. Moses Dupont, of Holyoke, Mass,
and his twenty-three brothers have, be-
tween them, 1922 children.
The trial Of Frank II Walworth for the
murder of his father was commenced in
the Court of Oyer and Terminer New
York, on Tuesday.
Misses Kate and Maria Doherty, of
Springfield, Mass, are in active training
for the feminine boat race to be rowed on
the Harlem River next month.
The War Department will next week
invite proposals for supplying 100000
headstones for the graves of the Union
dead.
Elias Pike, of Salisbury, Mass, while
drinking at spring, last Friday, fell in
and was drowned. He was 62 years of
age, and feeble in health
Lieut. Commander H. G. White, now
attachedto the Naval Academy, Annapo-
lis, has been ordered on the expedition to
search for the Polaris,
The influx of English settlers in Augusta
county, Va, is said to have caused con-
siderable advance in real estate in that vi
entity.
The first Campmeeting Of tho season
begins in Tolson's woods, Kent Island, on
Tuesday next, the LIST of July, Methodist
Episcopal
-Four cases of yellow fever are reported
in State street, Brooklyn, in the tenement
row where young man died the disease
last week.
Sixty people left Wilkesbarre, Pa, last
week, part of Wyoming colony, for Fort
Hays, Kansas Fifty-three more will leave
for the same destination next month.
General John Sidney Jones, of Philadel-
phia, who escaped from the Insane Asylum
at Harrisburg, some weeks ago, was cap
tured at York, Pa, aud returned to the
asylum.
The well-known cngraver Joseph Keller,
celebrated for his unequalled reproduction
of the Sixtine Madonna, died June Z at
Dusseldorf from the effects of II paralytic
stroke
Captain Edward Bush who lately died
in Suffolk, Va, became depressed because
of pecuniary troubles, and refused to take
food for thirty-one days prior to his
death.
Thomas jackson, colored, is to be hung
ut Leonardtown, st. Mays county, Md.
on the 18th of July, for the murder Of
james Schoficld, postmaster and merchant,
at Fairfield, in that county,
George Fields, colored, feloniously as
saulted German girl, named Lizzie Koch,
near Augusta, Mo-, on Saturday. He was
arrested and taken to Augusta, where he
was lynched by mob.
In the United States Court at Canaan
daigua on Saturday aoRe prosegui was
entered in the eases ofthe fourteen women
indicted with Miss Anthony for illegal
voting. The court then adjourned sine
die.
DIR. Bliss, executive officer of the
Health Board of Washington, d. c., says
there have been only three cases ofcholera
in that city thus far, and there is no ground
for experimenting an epidemic of the
disease.
There were So deaths from cholera in
Nashville. ON Sunday last, and 81 on
Monday. The majority of the cuses were
blacks There were but eight deaths on
Monday, in Memphis, and five in Cincin-
natl. The disease is abating. 81
An ;nsono man attending n c;rcns a,
Henderson XIV limo IA k;lled n babv
with n Iaroe club and injured n number of
other persons, some Of them badly, in their
efforts to arrest him. The police shot him
three times. He is now in chains.
A dos,o,ch from, Renbom Texas dated
SATURDAY. saws dailv rains for the mast
month Lavo nearly rn;ned tho crons IN
cha, eann,v Tho planters arc unable n
Iaan 5own ,ho weeds and Great nort;on
% H. co,ton in cnlt;vat;on will he aban.
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