The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-09-06
Items Of News.

elled l3l inches in forty-eight hours
The new Atlantic cable which is being
laid between Lisbon, Portugal, and the
coast of Brazil, broke at a point about one
hundred and eighty miles from Madeira.
A physician of Milersburg KY, reports
that the cholera is raging terribly in that
town. Most of the victims were coored.
There had been nearly thirty deaths from
the disease since Thursday.
Beau Hickman, the notorious sponge,
died in the Providence Hospital Wash
ingtou, on Tuesday morning, of paralysis,
in the 59th year Of his age. He was a
native of King William county, Va.
A horse fell through bridge crossing
the Hudson River Railroad, near Fishkill
Station, N. Y. recently, and was held sus-
pended by the harness while train
passed under lie was then lowered by
ropes
In Baltimore, on Saturday, as vessel
was being loaded with coal from ears, the
chain of the schultz broke, and the car fell
to the deck of the vessel, instantly crush
ing to death one man and seriously injur-
ing three Others.
The long-continued rain has ruined al
most the entire crops Of wheat and oats
remaining in the fields in Anne Arundel
county. The shocks are green with glow
ing wheat. Many thousand bushels will be
lost or rendered almost entirely worthless.
Miss Seavey, maiden lady of sixty
years, died at Belmont, n H., last Thurs
day, of voluntary starvation. She is said
to have refused food for twenty-eight days,
A sister of Miss Seavey died in similar
manner a few years ago.
The cholera is raging with great viru-
leucc in Hungary, fifty per cent. of the
eases proving fatal The fact of this
disease appearing in so many places in Eu-
rope and Asia, and also in this country, is
full of warning.
A telegram from Dover, n. H., reports
Hon. John p Hale to be in a dying condi-
ton. His daughter arrived at his bedside
on Wednesday from West Point, but he
was able to recognize her only by her
voice. His sight and voice are reported to
be gone.
Michael Angelo Mcfarland brother of
Daniel Mcfarland, who shot Albert ID.
Richardson, died in Bellevue Hospital,
New York, on Thursday evening. He
spent S25, 900 in defence of his brother,
and having died destitute and friendless is
buried in the Potters Field. This state
ment of his poverty has since been denied.
The steamer Ironsides, running between
Baltimore aud Wilmington, n. G., went
ashore ON Hog Island during an easterly
gale last Friday night and has since gone
to pieces. Her crew are safe The Iron
sides was a side wheel steamer, of about
1000 tons burden, and was built at Will
mington, Del, in 1866.
Senator Alcorn has led n secession from
the regular Republican nominations in
Mississippi, and announced himself can
didate for Governor in opposition to Ames.
Mr. Alcorn seems DESTROYS to run the
campaign on the principle Of a white
mans party" and the Democrats will
doubtless improve the dissension which he
has inaugurnted.
The confession of Irving, in San
Francisco, relative to the Nathan murder, is
not credited in New York city. II is
believed he made it with the design of
securing free passage to New York.
Judge Cardoza, who was active in the
search for Mr. Nathan murderer, believes
that Forester, now in prison in New York,
is the man.
A New York despatch reports that
another counterfeit FIVE hundred dollar
national bank note was detected at the
Sub-Treasury, New York, on Tuesday
The counterfeit is so good as to deceive
any but experts. Still another of these
counterfeit issues was passed on Tuesday
by n stranger at Titusville, Pa, who, on
being arrested, deposited 81, 900 as security
for his appearance.
The Chicago Tribune publishes crop re-
ports from about forty counties in Illinois,
embracing most of the corn-growing por-
ton of that State, and from twenty coun-
ties in different parts of Iowa. In half
the counties two thirds of an average, and
similar reports come from Iowa The
cause is said to be the drouth and the sea-
son is SO far advanced, that it is thought
little benefit would now result from rain.
Whilst the exports from the United
States have been much larger during the
present year than they were for the same
period of 1872, our imports have thus far
been nineteen millions less. These are
excellent signs, and with the unusual
activity now prevailing in nearly all the
ship yards along the Atlantic coast, prom
Use to put our commercial and financial
affairs before long on more prosperous
basis.
1t seems impossible to exaggerate the
amount of destruction caused by the re-
cent storm, which swept the coasts of Nova
Scotia. For three days an uninterrupted
story of disaster and loss of life has been
reported from Halifax, and the end is not
yet. The loss to the shipping interest is
oihPh1 cuuihhuusf anu iO Oiit ctli uA tile
number of lives which persisted in the ra-
ging sea. One hundred vessels went ashore
at Cape Breton ut Canso every vessel in
the harbor is high and dry, and the town
half ruined Out of feet of three hun
dred fishing vessels only twenty remain,
and dead bodies are floating ashore daily.
DIR. J. c. Showalter, who murdered his
wife in Baltimore, on Thursday evening
of last week, and then cut his own throat,
died in the hospital on Monday. lie was
from Uniontown, Alabama, and studied
medicine in New York. During the re-
bellion, Mrs. Showalter then widow, was
matron of the military hospital at Peters
burg, where Showalter was assistant sur
geon. lie being taken i'll of smallpox
she nursed him in his illness, and they
were married after he recovered. He
is said to have been kind husband when
sober, but when under the influence Of H.
quor, ia human iend.
Some months ago, in the town of Hun
tingdon, Long Island, band of self-con-
stitutcd regulators of societv lynchad N