The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-07-12
Items Of Nows.

Some of the Texas cattle measure nearly
FIVE feet between the tips of the horns.
Portions of Iowa and Arkansas were Wis.
tied by destructive hail storms on Wednes-
day night
Five whisky distilleries in Louisville
KY, produced 956,sls gallons ofliquor in
six months.
The County Commissioners have fixed
the tax levy for Montgomery county at "a
cents on the 500,
An Illinois Windmill lately ran one hun.
bred and eighty -one days, without stopping
once for lack of wind.
Barnum will spend $3.50, 900 for adver.
Using this year, and will make $500, 200
by it. Printers ink pays.
The business portion of the village of
Frog Level, in Newberry county $. c.,
was burned on Sunday Loss $4,000.
On Saturday, Judge Davis sentenced
young WalwOrth to confinement at hard
labor aud for life in the Sing Sing prison.
Several shocks OF earthquake were felt
at Buffalo on Sunday and Monday, and a
few chimncys were demolished
A boy in Vallejo, Cal, recently tripped
and fell upon an umbrella which he was
carrying, running it completely through
his neck.
There were 630 deaths in New York
last week, an increase of 33 per cent over
the former week. In Baltimore there
we're ITS deaths
A New York divorce lawyer adyertises:
"Hymenial ncompatibilities as a specially
delicately adjusted 'Tis slavery todetain
the hand after the heart hath fed
Information from all parts of Virginia is
to the effect that the wheat crop has turned
out quite good, and the prospects for oats,
corn, hay, &c, are splendid.
A number of Pennsylvania capitalists
passed through Washington on Monday, on
the way to Virginia, to "locate" land in the
Shenandoah Valley.
The st. Louis -four mill at Nenada, Ill.,,
was struck by lightning last Saturday morn.
ing, and consumed, with large amount Of
grain and flour.
n. Rufus Gill, President Of the Com.
mon Council of Baltimore was arrested in
that city on Monday, and fined by Justice
Hagcrty, ''ior displaying fireworks and
shooting frc-cnckers on the streets on
the Fourth of July,
In Burlington, Iowa, recently, little
girl was led into the room to take her last
look at her dead mother After gazing
in silence for few moments, the child
turned away and expired almost instantly.
Iowa is the only State of the Union rep
resented as being entirely free from debt,
and yet it is State that has doubled its
population in the last ten years, and places
it in the matter of population as eleven in
the Union, against number twenty in 1860.
Three of the remaining Modocs, one of
them Captain Jacks father-in-law, suren-
dered last week to Superintendent Blair
ut Fairchilds rancho The Modoc pris-
oners at Fort klamath are suffering from
illness brought on by their imprisonment
The Treasury Department will begin the
printing of the new fifty-cent note next
week, but will probably not issue it before
ten days. The new note will be about a
quarter of an inch shorter and quarter Of
an inch wider than that now in circula.
ton.
In excavating the docks at Locust Point
Baltimore, to depth of twenty-four feet
bed of iron ore has been encountered
which is believed to extend across the
harbor to Canton, and runs for some dis.
lance beyond in northeasterly and south
westerly direction.
On Saturday afternoon as a locomotive
was entering the roundhouse Of the Pitts
burg and Connellsyille Railroad, at Pitts
burg, it ran off the track, and against the
principal support of the house The col
lision caused the roof to fall in, and injur
ed engines and railroad material to tn,
amount of $4,000.
Crop reports by telegraph from Illinoi
and Iowa, covering the greater portion O
those States, indicate that, Notwithstanding
the damage to the wheat by the recent
severe storms, there will be ''fully an aver
age CROP Oats have suffered more thar
wheat, but the corn looks well, and with
favorable weather will yield a full average
crop,
Judge Robertson, of Virginia, died Al
his residence in Campbell county, in that
State, on Saturday, aged 8S years. Ht
was Representative in Congress from
1884 to 1889, and subsequently Lieuten
ant Governor of Virginia. He was after
wards Judge of the Circuit Court of Rich
mond City, until incapacitated by age
He was vigorous writer on political ant
legal subjects.
The most favorable reports have. beer
received from Washington county, Md, al
to the character of the wheat and corr
crops, The present harvest of wheat i
spoken ofas an unusually bounteous one ,anC
the quality of the wheat is unsurpassed.
The corn, too, is doing well, having been
sent on its way rejoicing by the late rains
From Allegany county similar repor
comes.
Illinois is almost out of debt. In 1866
the State owed nearly twelve millions, ant
during the war the equipment of troop
and similar objects cost large sums, whicl
temporarily increased the debt. All ha
been paid off since the war, however, ex
cepting about two millions, which the Stat
is now ready to pay, but is unable to dos
because the holders will not surrende
their bonds, which are not yet due. Tn
revenues are in excess of her expenditures
and Illinois finances are generally ind yer.
prosperous condition.
lii every car on the Connecticut Rive
Railroad there is box overhead, at on'
end Of which is contained the name OF tn
next station, which it is the duty Of th
brakemen to change as they leave the sta
tons. And it goes further; It state
where they connect with other roads A
the change is made, bell strikes twice
which attracts the attention of the passcn
gers, so that the box always exhibits TIL
name of the next station, and so on. Thu