The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-08-16
Items of News.

Blacque Bey, late Turkish Minister at
Washington, sailed for Europe on Satur-
day.
Eighteen deaths from cholera and thirty
from cholera morbus were reported in ST.
Louis during last week.
The Post-oiiice in Toronto, Canada, was
robbed of ninety-one registered letters ON
Sunday night.
At Baltimore ON Friday the 22d of
August James West will be hung for the
murder of Annie Gibson.
Mrs Augusta Rosentha and child were
burned to death in Baltimore, ON Saturday
night, by the explosion of coal oil lamp.
The road from Hagerstown to Martins
burg has been leased and will be operated
by the Cumberland Valley Railroad.
Nincty-for steamers, making 1872 trips,
have carried 1883 passengers to Europe
this year,
Next Wednesday, the Goth inst, is the
day fixed by Professors Wise and Donald
son for starting on their balloon voyage
across the Atlantic.
Hon. ID. w. Voorhees,, of Indiana, will
deliver the Grafton before the Agricultural
Society of Frederick county, Nd, at the
approaching fair.
AT the end of August, 1873, two hun
dred years ago, the first white men, Jac-
qucs Marquette and Louis Solicit, arrived
at the spot now known as Chicago.
Baltimore was visited by heavy rain
on Sunday morning, in less than an hour
1872 inches of water fell, flooding the lower
portion of the city. Many new buildings
were damaged.
The steamer Wawassett, running on the
Potomac river, between Washington and
various points was burned on Friday Sth
Mt noon. She had $50 passengers on
board, Y of whom are reported lost.
The vessels composing our European
squadron, under command of Rear Admiral |
Case, have been ordered to rendezvous at
Spanish ports, for the protection of Ameri- |
can interests during the Spanish troubles.
The Secretary of the Navy has ordered |
the trial by court-maItial, at Annapolis, on |
the 18th instant, of DR. Marius Duvall, U. |
5. N, charged with having shot at two
marines engaged in picking strawberries in
the grounds of the Naval Hospital Farm.
John Prick, Jr., in the neighborhood of
Ringgold, Washington county, whilst plow-
ing with his brother, on Thursday last, was
stung by nest of bees and died in short
time, Ills brother escaped without being
stung.
1t appears from late Cuban advices that
the cause of Don Carlos has made some
progress on that island 4 conspiracy in
behalf of the pretender has been unearthed |
there, with which some officers of the gov |
eminent are connected.
Mrs. Wartcmberg dicda Owasso, Mich.
on Sunday, from arsenical poison. Chas. /
Moore, her son-in-law, was arrested, and |
confessed that he gave her the arsenic 1t .
is supposed his object was to get possession
OF her property.
At Tunkhannock. Pa, on Sunday.
Sidney Major shot at hawk, and three Of
the buckshot struck Oscar Mills, who was
in an adjoining yard, killing him instantly,
Mills was an assistant engineer of the &.
s. Navy, and was awaiting orders
George Carson, a Custom House official,
shot and instantly killed German named
Charles Sauer, fireman ON the steamer
Baltimore, on Sunday night Carson was
arrested and committed to prison on Mon
day
John w. Young, ex-clerk in the Chicago
Post-ofhce, who was arrested in Massachu-
sets few days since for forging postal
money orders, is reported to have escaped
from the detectives who were taking him
to Chicago by jumping from the train and
running into the woods.
The cotton crop this year will reach if it
does not exceed 1850 900 bales, or about
one-fourth more than the crop of last year
AS usual the bulk of the crop is exported,
2,62O, 100 bales of the yield of 1872 hav-
ing already been shipped to European
ports, chiefly to England.
Hardy Jones, colored, aged 50 years
was hung in Newborn, n. G. on the Sth
instant, for the murder of Robert Miller.
Jones had been arrested for some offence
and the oifiacr was taking him to iail.
They stopped at a spring for water, and as
Miller stopped to drink, Jones seized his
gun and shot him.
In the choral competition for the 81, 900
gold cup, which took place in the Crystal
Palace, London, on July 10, the South
Wales Union Choir, composed entirely of
WEIGH singers, came off victorious for the
second time, under the leadership of Mr..
Griffith Jones, better known as Caradoc, of
Aberder, South Wales
VIM. Fulton, and his son eight years of
age, were struck by locomotive, killed,
and thrown into the canal at Point of
Rocks tunnel, ON the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad last Friday. They were walking
on the track, and, hearing the whistle Of
an engine, stepped upon another truck in
front OF a passing train.
Emma Black, living in small town on
the Mississippi, saved mans life the
other day in curious way. He was fish.
Ing, and tumbed out of his boat and being
unable to swim, would have persisted had
not the maiden, discovering his danger,
swan out to him, aud throwing into his
hands her back hair, four feet in length,
lowed him to the land, {
Further particulars of the fight between
the Pawnee and Sioux Indians on Repub
lican river, reported on Saturday, state that
when the Sioux captured the Pawncc camp
they massacred number of women and {
children. The Sioux numbered $50 war.
,riors, and lost 30 in the fight They have
been forced back upon their reservation by I
troops from Fort Mcpherson.
Tho city Of Portland, Maine, has been
visited by another destructive conaagra- !
tion. Five years ago half dozen squares,
comprising nearly the whole Of the bust.
ness portion Of the city, was laid in ashes. $
The fire on Saturday was confined to the
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