The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-01-25
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w AutAyi VI iust week, anu ultcr nxntlng
all day long were defeated and driven back
with heavy loss The dispatches cndca.
vor 10 soften the announcement, but il IL
evident that the result was nothing les.
than repulse. The plan Of attack seems
to have miscarried, and the battle must now
be fought over again. The upshot of the
matter is all the worse because the soldiers
outnumbered thehostile Indians two to one.
The smallpox is fairly an epidemic in
Boston, and is creating grave apprchen-
sion in that city and its vicinity Three
thousand cases are now reported to exist
there, and the percentage OF deaths is much
larger than by all causes combined Nearly
all the burials are made in the night.
The prevalence of the disease has had a
serious effect upon commercial interests
generally. The Board of Health urges
the necessity of vaccination, requests
prompt information of new cases. and the
cooperation of the citizens generally in
carrying out all proper sanitary measures.
A despatch from Allentown, Pa, says
the Western express train, which left East
Penn junction at halfpast seven, Friday
morning, narrowly escaped terrible acct
dent. At Dubbs' Mill, one mile west Of
Allentown, the train was stopped by the
trackmen, it having been discovered that
twenty-five feet of the track had been
sunk by the rain which fell during the
night. The train, however, passed over
safely, "but had scarcely got out of sight
when the ground suddenly sunk fifteen feet
carrying with it the track and men," Two
of the men had their legs broken.
A fire at Parker's Landing, Pa, Sunday
afternoon, destroyed the Wallace House,
Exchange Hotel, Daily Transcript Office,
Union House, Greeley House, Spencer's
Opera House, Chalfant & Crafts hardware
store, a number of other business places,
and twenty-five or thirty dwellings. Loss
s25O,O00. 1t destroyed large number Of
dwellings, besides larger buildings, and
made more than hundred families home
less. The losses will reach about $3.50, 900.
Two or three buildings were blown up, to
check the spread of the flames
The Oldest man in the world has at length
been discovered. His name is Jose MARITIME
Continho, resident of Cape Frio, in the
province of Rio Janeiro, Brazil who was
born on the 10th of May, 1894, and is
therefore nearly one hundred and ninety.
four years old II is said that he has
forty-two children by six wives, and can
count one hundred and twenty-three grand
children, eighty-six great grandchildren
twenty-three great-great-grandchildrc
and twenty children of the last.
The Kentucky Lottery, in aid Of the
Louisville Public Library, realized, after
paying expenses, net profit of s22,7 700
Since the opening of the Kentucky Legis
lature, bill has been introduced prohibit
ing lotteries, gift concerns, and similar
schemes. A similar bill has also been in
troduced in the New York State Legisla
ture, which further prohibits newspaper
from publishing advertisements of >sucl
undertaking, under heavy penalties.
| A dispatch from Savannah, Ga. dated
Jan. 10th, says General Lees birthda,
was celebrated with great eclat to-day
The first parade of military since the wal
took place. The First Georgia Volunteers
Eighteenth battalion, the Cheatham Ar.
tillery, and the Georgia Hussars, paraded
in uniform. General Wade Hampton de
livered an address. The day was generally
observed as holiday, and rcsembled tho
fourth of July before the war
The steamship Arcadian, of the Aller
line, which left Baltimore on "Wednesday
Of last week Cor Halifax, with 1850 ton,
of coal, was stopped eight miles below the
city on Thursday afternoon and cut
through by the ice The captain attempt
ed to return to Baltimore, but was Obliged
to run the vessel ashore FIVE miles below
the city, where she now lies with her fore
hold full of water.
Mrs Mary Van Horne, prominent
Episcopalian lady, who died recently il
New York city, devised nearly half a
million of dollars, the bulk of her property
to the New York Orphan Asylum, ST.
Lukes Hospital, the Five Points House Of
Industry, the Society for Seamen, tn,
Home for the Friendess, the Woman's
Asylum, and to numerous other charitable
societies.
In the Conservative Legislature at New
Orleans on Monday, the balloting for Uni
ted States Senator was resumed without
result. In the Kellogg Senate resolution
was passed expelling three Senators whs
went over to the Conservative Senate
In the Kellogg House resolution expelline
nine members who had also gone over was
introduced.
The wife and four Of the daughters Of
Chas. Shaw, living near Cambridge, N. Y
were poisoned on Thursday, of last week
One of the daughters, aged IA years, died
on Friday night, and another was dying or
Saturday night. The other two daughters
and the mother were so in that their re
covery was doubtful. Shaw is suspected
Of having administered the poison.
A little boy named William Post, riding
down hill on sled in Kingston, N. Y,
Monday week, ran on the track of the New
York, Kingston and Syracuse Railroad, IN
front Of a passing locomotive. The little
fellow was caught under the wheels and
literally ground to atoms, the only recogniza
Bile portion of his body being the head
which was completely severed from the
trunk, and thrown on one side Of the track
The British and American Claims Com
mission, since December 18th, have re-
jected twenty-four claims, and made favor
able awards in fourteen other cases. Sc
far they have disposed of about $50 cases
and will doubtless complete their bushes,
by September 2Gth, the time prescribed BY
the treaty.
A London rag merchant died recently
worth 100000, the whole Of which he
left to charitable institutions, although he
had number of relatives living During
the whole of his life he had never been
known to give away penny in charity, moi
SO much because he was avaricious as be
cause Of naturally morose disposition.
The Mechanics Bank, at Lancaster Pa
was robbed on the 18th inst. Of bonds be,
longing chiefly to depositors for safety