The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-10-25
Items OF News.

Australia is reported to have sent
S5,O0O,0O0 worth Of preserved meat to
England last year.
Goldsmith Maid, trotting against time
Wednesday, at Dexter Park, Chicago,
made mile in 2:1Tl.
A telegram from Calcutta to the Lon
don Times says severe famine is threat
ened in Bengal.
1t is stated that more than sixty five
millions of postal cards have been used
during the past five months
Mr.. Jacob Singmaster, of Stroudsburg,
Monroe county, Pa, is worth eight million
dollars.
Seven cars full Of eggs were sent East
on the Milwaukee and Northern Railway
in one train last week,
A frame dwelling in Toledo, Ohio, was
burned on Saturday, and a man named
Kelly, his wife and grandchild persisted
in the flames,
The scarcity of currency has locked up
an immense quantity of bullion ut Salt
Lake City Silver now soils there at less
than seventy cents per ounce.
The money order clerk in the Atlanta,
Georgia, post-officc, has disappeared, leav-
ing deficiency" in his accounts Ito an
amount that is unknown"
All but % miles of the Southern Mary
land Railroad is now graded. This road
will give the people of Southern Maryland
direct communication with Baltimore.
In Baltimore, on Saturday morning,
Mrs. Christiana Pappler was thrown from
a butcher wagon by a collision with street
car, and died few hours afterwards of
conclusion of the brain.
Snow fell at Oakland, in this State, OH
Monday, to the depth of eight inches.
At Cranberry Summit, West Virginia, it
fell to the depth of Is inches. Also at
Frostburg, Nd, and at Dayton Ohio.
A delegation of Pittsburgers were at
Washington Tuesday asking for suspen-
sion of all criminal proceedings against
Colonel Stewart, the deiaulting Postmaster,
in consideration of the fact that he is about
to refund the amount cmberzlcd.
The New York Clearing House has re-
solved to resume currency payments on
the 9th inst. also that its certificates shall
be redeemed in 20 per cent instruments,
payable on the goth, I'D, 18th, 9th and
Both insts
The Grow Indians complain that the
Government has given them in exchange
for a reservation of 100000 acres one Of
$3.50, 600 acres, on which there is neither
wood, water, nor grass, and where they
cannot raise any corn to eat
The United States Marshals In East
Tcnnessc and Western North Carolina, on
Monday arrested large number of coun-
terfeites, whom the secret service detec-
tives had been "spotting" for five months
The East Tennessee prisoners were taken
to Knoxville,
Secretary Robson is busily engaged in
the Polaris investigation. lie has recen-
tly stated that all the facts elected corro-
borate the theory that Captain Hall died a
natural death, and no suspicion of having
poisoned him rests on any of the officers or
the crew.
The Tabernacle Tent in Baltimore,
was destroyed during the storm Monday
morning. Religious services had been held
in it under the auspices of the National
Camp Meeting Association, and for two
years past it had been pitched in various
cities of the Union.
1t is stated that U. s. Attorney Swope
at Pittsburg has discovered where the
fbrous paper used in making counterfeit
notes has been manufactured, also the
names Of the makers. 1t is expected that
che counterfeiters who executed the dan
gerous $500 note will soon be in custody.
The National Life Insurance Company
of New York has gone into the hands ola
receiver. The assets of the Company are
1914 600, and its liabilities s713,000.
Not over 100000 of available assets
remain for the widows and orphans of the
Insured. 1t is comforting to know that
Jay Cooke had nothing to do with this
company.
VI. Devere, first Bishop of the French
settlement of ST. Pierre, is reported to
have been assassinated in the sacristy Of
his chapel while at prayer. Emil Pelletier,
"a cousin of the Bishop, has been arrested
for the crime, which is supposed to have
been melted by the fact that the Bishop
had inherited all the fortune of Pelletiers
father, a wealthy Frcnchman.
The manufacturing establishments of
the New England States are reported to be
contemplating general reduction Of the
volume of production, either by decreasing
the hours of labor or by discharging
portion of their working people At Fall
River, in Massachusetts, the plan has been
put into operation by reduction to half
time. At some other places partial dis
charges are announced
Henry Phillips, lumber dealer in the
Pennsylvania pine regions, has disap-
pearcd Phillips is alleged to have forged
the names of respectable citizens to notes,
by which he realized $4,000 to $4,000.
The Clarion Bank, the Luthersburg Bank,
besides well known citizens are mentioned
as being among the victims of Phillips
His character heretofore has been above
reproach.
An ugly story comes from London, to
the effect that broker employed by Jay
Gould in the British metropolis has disap-
peared with the neat little sum of $780,
900, profits alleged to have been made in
transactions in Erie stock. It is also
reported that the absconding party has
carried away with him the funds of several
New York operators who entrusted business
to him. This is certainly bad year for
spectators.
Telegraphic dispatches from Canada,
the New England States, New York, and
Pennsylvania, brings news Of heavy rain
storm and occasional snow, accompanied
everywhere by high winds, which together
have occasioned very serious damage The
storm commenced on Sunday, when it was
most severe. In Canada snow and wind
w@e the prevailing disturbances from