The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-03-22
Items of News.

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From this we learn that the value Of iron
and its annual products is s62S, 300, S85 +;
cotton worsted aud WOODEN, SOL 49,, III
Touring and grist mills, sii4,985, LAB
leather and its products, S3i5 ABS. 1870 /;
lumber, S252, 339, O29 sugar and molasses,
Sll9,7S9O97 liquors, distilled, malt and
vinous, 1874 ,l23,0l4 tobacco, cigars and
snuff, 81 ,762,044; printing paper, 49,
O00, 900; writing paper, s9,OOO,0OO; book
binding, Sll, 900 agricultural nipple.
ments, s52, OGG, S75 iewelry, s22, lO4 1872,
and patent medicines sl6,OOO,0JO. The
total manufactured products ofthe United
States for the last census year reach the
amazing SUN of 81, 232, 325,4l2.
The twenty-five largest cities in Europe
have, according to the last census, the fol.
lowing number Of inhabitants: London,
3,81U,000; Paris, l,s50,0O0 CONSTANT
nople, l,O75,O00; Vienna, including sub
urbs, 100000; Berlin, $4,000; ST. Pc.
tersburg, $4,000; Liverpool, $4,000 ;
Manchester, including Stafford, 800, 300 /;
Glasgow, 100000; Naples, .llO,OOO; Mos;
COW, 10000; Birmingham, 10000 :
Lyons, 32l,0G9; Dublin, 100000; Ma
drid, 3ls,O0O Brussels with suburbs,
3lS,0OO, Marseilles, 3l2,OOO; Pes,-O ien
(Buda), $4,000; Warsaw, 100000
Hamburg, 100000; Rome, 226,OOO; Tu.
rim, 100000.
The export ofapplos has become an i'm.
portant branch of the trade of Boston. over
ten thousand barrels Of eating apples hav-
ing been sent to Europe BY three steam ,rs
during the month of February. In the
large cities Of England there is steady
demand for this fruit, which is sold ut
reasonable rates. 1t is not uncommon for
Michigan fancy apples to be placed among
other dlnties on the tables OF the nobility,
and even ON that of the Queen.
\ Maine paper relates the following Incl
dent: willis Williams. of Islesboro was
out on the ice, hunting sea-gulls, when an
accidental discharge of his fowling-pieee
wounded him badly in the thigh. He
smeared his dogs face with blood and told
him to 90 home, which the animal did,
and the blood alarmed the family and they
followed him to the place where the young
man was lying
At Syracuse, n. Y on Monday Albert
Keller, aged Il, killed Ida Spencer, aged
II. The murderer was first cousin to the
girl. He lived in Canada, and was visiting
his uncle, the girls father. Amer the
murder he hurried to the railroad depot
to escape ON a train just starting, but
missing his hold as he was getting on the
cars, he fell back on the track and broke
his neck. nttl-
Twenty-Five ladies and gentlemen in
Newark, n. j., assembled in hotel par
lor two or three evenings ago, and formed
society for the promotion Of marriage.
An alarming condition of affairs was dis
closed by the statement that there are in
Newark three meu to every woman. The
competition which naturally ensues renders
marriage improbable and puts premium
on Irritation.
A noteworthy feature ofthe ocean freight
market for the last few months is the large
shipments of coal TO Cuba, S.. Thomas,
and other West India Islands, which had
forn,eylv Drawn mos, of,ho;r s,,nrI;os e.,
Paa,.n1 H. a"s s, - ~; ~ ~ ' ,I 80 a' "
coal on n. a,ber s;Je nf ,ho Atlin, ie !; u
tho c,,so 81 ,b;s chanon "
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