The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-12-13
Items of N ews.

Professor Agassiz is seriously i'll at his
residence in Cambridge, Mass
Johns Hopkins, of Baltimore, is ex-
tremely i'll.
The U. 5. steamer Kearsarge went into
commission at San Francisco on Monday.
Tweed has been appointed assistant or.
derby in the prison hospital at Blackwells
Island.
A Milwaukee brewing company has i'm
ported 100000 bushels of barley and 800
bales of hops from Italy.
The Phoenix Silk Mill, at Patterson, n.
j., which has been partly stopped since
the panic, added 300 hands to its force
this week,
1t is said that the steamer City of
Merida, the fastest vessel on the coast. is
to be transformed into gunboat and
transport, to be used in case of war.
james Lucas, Esq, the well known book
and job printer, in Baltimore, died sud
denly in that city on Monday last, in the
18th year of his age.
The Government OF Santo Domingo has
addressed a communication TO this Govern
ment asking for the establishment of an
American protectorate over the island.
A receiver was appointed on Saturday
for the Canston Savings Bank of Provi-
dcnce, r. l., the Commissioners appointed
to examine its condition having reported
that it was insolvent.
The boiler of the steamer Royal George
exploded at Albany, Texas, on Saturday
night. The mate and three deck hands
were killed, and seven Others injured-fve
of them seriously. At last accounts the
wreck was on fire, and relief had been sent
from Shreveport.
The Spanish frigate Arapiles is likely to
be detained in the dry dock several days
longer by the accidental sinking of barge
laden with 200 tons of coal opposite the
entrace to the dock Owing to the pres
sure of work at the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
none of the men can be spared to assist in
removing this obstruction.
At Audenreid, Pa, on Saturday, while
u number of miners were descending the
Honey Brook slope, the fastening of the
car broke, prccipitating them down the
mine distance of 500 feet. Alexander
Brown and John Richards were killed,
and Patrick Doolan was MORALLY injured
Twelve others escaped with slight injuries
The counsel for the prisoners convicted
of an attempt to rob Delaware bank have
withdrawn their reasons for new trial.
The culprits have been sentenced to the
pillory, forty lashes, fine of FIVE hundred
dollars, and ten years Imprisonment,
The sentence of flogging was carried
out on Wednesday last.
On Sunday afternoon, four armed and
disguised men, who said they were United
States detectives in search of counterfeit
money, entered the house of Henry Deer
ing, near Baltimore, presented pistols at
Deering and his wife and compelled the
latter to disclose where their money was
kept. The robbers then escaped with
$3.50. They have since been arrested.
There is much reticence in official
circles at Washington concerning the
reported resignation of Minister Sickles,
but>it is admitted that his conduct was
unsatisfactory, and it was owing to this
that the negotiations with Spain were
concluded in Washington, between Ad-
miral Polo and Secretary Fish. On
General Sickles retirement as Minister
he will draw an annual salary, as retired
Major General, of S5625.
The Government despatch boat Despatch
arrived at Key West on the 9th, in four
days from Norfolk, and transferred 900
barrels of powder to the storeship Pawnee,
to be deposited in Fort Taylor Both the
despatch boats at Key West were then
under steam, waiting telegraphic orders.
The steamer Rescue left Washington on
Sunday for Key West, after mounting two
30-pounder PARROTS, She will be used as
despatch boat.
On Saturday afternoon, FIVE boys were
skating on pond, at Westwood junction,
near Schuylkill Haven, Pa, when the ice
gave way. A freight train passing at the
time was stopped and the train men went
to the rescue. After great exertions they
saved two Of the boys. The others were
dead when taken out. The drowned were
Samuel Simmons, james Finn and Frank
Boppert. Firms father was drowned
several years ago in the same pond.
A paper church building is said, by the
Journal Of the Society of Arts, to have
been built in Bergen, Norway, city of
nearly 100000 inhabitants. The building
is circular within and octagonal without.
The relieves outside, the statues inside, the
roof, the ceiling are all constructed Of
popier mache, made waterproof by satura-
tion in yitriol, lime water, whey and white
of egg. The church building has space
enough to accommodate 1000 people.
A letter to the st, Louis Despatch says
that six desperadoes raided along the
White River, in Arkansas, on the 26th
ult., robbing the settlers of horses, money
and other valuables Returning from
their raid they were met in ambush at
Maguire's Ferry, by the citizens, who fired
upon them, and their leader and two
others were killed Another was MORALLY
wounded, and the remaining two were
captured. 1t was decided to hang the
prisoners, but their captors were at length
persuaded to leave them in the hands Of
the law.
The cable on Tuesday announced the
prevalence of dense fog in London, one
of the old-fashioned kind, and almost with,
out precedent in quality and quantity. AT
2 o'clock p. NJ. the city was as dark as
midnight, and all traffic had ceased. Lo-
comotion was hazardous, and the streets
were filed with men and boys bearing
torches to light pedestrians on their way.
The London hospitals are filed with per.
sons who were run over or otherwise in.
jured in the great fog The darkness
appears to have extended over to Birming.
ham, serious collision having occurred
there between two trains, by which thirty
persons arc reported killed, and the cause
is attributed to heavy fog at the time.
The propeller City of Detroit sank il
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