The Democratic advocate., 1873-11-08
Items of News.

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The West Philadelphia Bank, State
institution, announces a semi-annual diyi-
dend of four per cent. payable on demand.
Without reckoning exports, the English
consumption of coal amounts to 100000
900 tons per annum.
Counterfeit $3.50 gold pieces, amount
ing to the sum Of $4,000, were captured
in Chatham county, N. G., recently,
Thirty-fvc Chinese have arrived ut
Augusta, Georgia, to work on the Augusta
Canal More are expected in few days
The savings banks of Concord, n. H.,
have determined to pay no depositors until
January.
NJ. Il. Wade, formerly clerk in the Office
of the Secretary Of State of Tennessee has
been arrested in st. Louis, for forging
State bonds to the amount of 100000.
Donald Mckay, clerk of the Criminal
Court at Chicago, has been held in $4,000
bail to answer the charge of issuing fraud,
ulent naturalization papers.
The Providence Tool Company, now
making 60, 900 rifles for the Turkish Gov
ernment, has received notice that 500 900
more of the same pattern will be ordered.
Christopher Rafferty,, twice convicted of
the murder of policeman in Chicago,
and sentenced to be hanged, has been
granted new trial by the Supreme Court
of Illinois.
The Pacific mail steamship Ariel, run
ming between Yokohama and Hakodadi, !
has been totally wrecked. Her passen-
gers were saved. The Ariel was an old
vessel, valued at $4,000
The wrecks during October of vessels
belonging to, or bound to, or from ports of
the United States, aggregate Gfty-ninc,
the value of the vessels exclusive of their
cargoes being s7lS,0O0.
Louis Gaylord Clark, well known in
literary circles, died ut his residence,
Piermont, ON the Hudson, on Monday
night, after an illness of only few hours,
resulting from paralytic stroke.
The Mint in Philadelphia is coming
double eagles at the rate of ten millions a
month. The California Mint is running
to its full capacity on gold coinage and
trade dollars. Where do they all go to?
A frame dwelling in Washington was
burned on Saturday, aud three colored
children, who were locked up in it during
the absence of their parents, perished in
the flames.
The sub.treasurer at New York has
determined to issue silver only to those
persons likely to circulate it. Every
attempt at obtaining silver for mere specu-
lative purposes is opposed.
The Southern Claims Commission will
report to Congress, about the middle of
December, on 2500 claims, involving over
S1,000,000. At least one-third of the
claims are rejected for want of proof of
the loyalty of the claimants
Serious charges have been made against
General o. II. La Grange, Superintcn-
dent of the Mint at San Francisco, involy-
ing fraudulent transactions, the employment
of Incompetent persons, and the assessment
of his employees for the Nevada election
The house and barn of VIM. StockeIl, in
Wilton, n. H., were burned on Sunday,
and an infant perished in the flames
The FIRE was, caused by children, who
were left alone in the house, playing with
matches.
In the United States District Court,
sitting at Trenton, n. j., Bertolini, the
Italian convicted of sending obscene matter
through the mails, was sentenced to one
year confinement in the New Jersey State
prison 0iift
A Spanish gunboat has succeeded in
capturing the steamer Virginius, which
has been engaged in landing arms and am.
'munition on the Cuban coast The cap
ture was made on the high seas after
chas'e, and all on board taken prisoners.
At ,t trial of two negroes in Wilmington,
N. c., i;ar the murder of white child
Jury composcd entirely of colorcd men
acquitted one of the accused and found
the other guilty of murder in the first de-
gree.
The suit Of Britton VS.. General Butler,
for drafts to the amount of $4,000 seized
by Butler when military Governor of New
Orleans, in the United States Circuit
Court at New York, before Judge Wood
ruff, has been concluded. Decision re-
served.
The Tweed case was called iu one of
the New York Courts on Wednesday, be-
fore Judge Davis The counsel of Tweed
presented protest against Judge Davis
trying the case The Court pronounced
the protest untruthful and extraordinary,
and directed the trial to proceed
An italian woman, living in East New
ark, N. j., was killed on Monday by
bear, with which she and her husband had
been giving exhibitions. II seems the
husband, in going to Jersey City, left the
bear tied to a tree in charge Of his wife,
and on returning found her in the bears
clutches mangled mass of flesh and bones.
Gentlemen connected with the Civil
service had better be careful how they
conduct their correspondence. An inter
nal revenue store-keeper in the Fourth
district Of Kentucky, having written to
Omaha, Nebraska, to inquire as to his
success in lottery scheme, and used the
official stamp to transmit his letter, aswell
NJ endorsing one for tho reply, has been
dismissed by the Commissioner OF Internal
Revenue.
Further outrages are reported in Col
fax, Grant parish, La. Ex-Judge Merrill,
under date of October Goth, writes that the
house of respectable widow lady was fired
into, the door broken open, and the woman
and her daughter cruelty assaulted. An
infant grandclild Of Ex-Governor Wells