The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-12-06
Items of News.

the Hudson riverat Poughkeepsie. Ground
was broken last week.
Louis Il. Kennard, an employee of the
Baltimore Post-oihce, has been arrested for
riang letters.
An ancient well, built of stone, was re-
Gently discovered in Illinois. thirty-two
feet beneath the surface.
Since the beginning of the present wear
5000 building permits have been issued
in Baltimore.
Duke Ernest, of SAKE Coburg, broth
cr-in-aw of Queen Victoria, is said to be
coming to this country Let him come.
Paul c, +. Shaffer, aged 40 years, com
mitted suicide Sunday in Baltimore, be-
cause he suffered from i'll health.
VIM. Fisher 4 Sons, of Baltimore. who
suspended during the panic, resumed on
Monday last, having made settlement in
full
\ son of Brigham Young, accompanied
by his wife, visited Elkton, Cecil county.
Md, last week. The lady was formerly
Miss Garfield, aud met her husband in
Europe
The third trial of Christopher Rafferty,,
at Chicago, for the murder of policeman
OMeara, resulted on Thursday week in
his conviction for the third time. The
jury fixed the penalty at death.
Chas. W. Gross, aged 81, committed
suicide in Baltimore, on Saturday, by
taking strychniuc Louis Schneider, aged
80, committed suicide in Baltimore, the
same afternoon, by taking laudanum.
Judge Davis has fined the attorneys of
Tweed in the late trial two hundred and
fifty dollars each. In doing so he delivered
to them sewers lecture on unprofessional
conduct.
The tax collector Of Wicomico county,
Md, advertises the property of about two
hundred and fifty persons, the list includ-
ing tracts of land, farms, houses, lots,
mills, &c, levied upon for taxes not paid
and to be sold at auction.
At Crisfcld thirty thousand bushels of
oysters are shucked and packed weekly.
To do this work, seven hundred men, wo
men and children are employed as shuck-
ers, whose wages average about $40 per
week.
Some two or three years ago valuable
nugget of gold was found on Mr. Robert
Davidson's farm, in Montgomery county,
Maryland and within the last few weeks
several additional specimens of great value
have been found ON the same farm.
Experiments with the Wizard gun took
place last week on Nut Island, near Bos-
ton. Balls from the gun penetrated ID
inches of solid iron plates, and the expert
ments were pronounced by Captain Trux-
ton perfectly successful so far as they were
carried
lngersoll and Harrington, two of Tweed's
accomplices, have been convicted Of forgery
in the third degree, for frauds committed
in the furnishing of that courthouse which
stands unfinished as monument of the
reign of crime in Office. They, like their
master, will spend some years in the poni-
tertiary.
Arson D. Crane, Assistant Revenue
Collector for the Third Vermont District,
has been reported defaulter to the amount
of Sl7 900, Crane asserts, however, that
Jewett, the former Collector, embczzled
the money. Cranes bondsmen, one of
whom is Senator Edmunds, are able to
make good the amount stolen.
At San Francisco, last week Captain
Clarke, of the ship Sunrise, convicted of
cruelty to seamen, was sentenced to four
teen months Imprisonment and $1,000 fine.
Frank Harris, his first mate, was sentenced
to four years in the penitentiary, and
Dennis Maloney, second mate, to sixty
days in the county Jail.
Petty smuggling from Canada is brisk.
\ letter from Ogdensburg says that several
Watertown ladies were searched at the
eustom-housc recently ON coming from
Prescott, and had their goods taken away
from them. Thirty-thrce women were
searched, and all but four were trying to
smugglc something over
A young lady teacher in one of the
lockport On. W public schools was as
saulted by one of her large boy scholars
recently, and so badly handled that she
wa WINS 'aSeh nome IN an unconscious state
INC oM'"" says II the case proves as ag-
srava'ed as reported the boy should be
s"'pehucu py inc neck
Alberto Garcia, the Mexican bandit
chief, has been captured by the authorities
in Mexico and brought to Matamoras
where he is held for extradition 10 the
United States. 1t was Garcia and his
gang, who some DAYS since robbed n store
in Conception, Texas. of $4,000 in cash
arms and goods, and retired with their
booty into Mexico.
One hundred men were recently dis
charged without being paid BY a coptrac.
tor on a railroad between Tcnco and tn.
cana, in Washington Territory They
armed themselves gave notice that no
more work should be done on the railroad
until they were paid, and drove forty
workmen from the road Il was renorted