The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-11-01
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South Boston Station, has been arrested fol
stealing money from registered letters.
George Wolf, wealthy farmer, living
near Hopkinsvillc, KY, was murdered in
his bed, on Thursday night of last week.
The trial of VIM Il, Undertook for the
: alleged murder of VIM. +. S. Goss com
menced at West Chester, Pennsylvania
on Wednesday.
Since June Both 24l7 miles of new
railroad postal service have been put in
operation in this country, making the total
now in operation 60, $40 miles
John c. Heenan, the prize fighter, died
of consumption on Saturday morning near
Rawlins, on the Union Pacific railroad,
while OH the way to San Francisco
Alexander f. Holmes, book-keeper of
Hardy Brothers, in Baltimore, has been
arrested and held to answer the charge of
forging checks to the amount Of 81 900.
Il. A. Jones, father of the starving fam
lily found in the streets of New York on
Friday night, died in the hospital next
day. His widow aud children are still in
precarious condition.
Mrs. Theodore Macomber, in the Tooth
year of her age, died in Middlcboro'
Mass, on the 10th instant. Her sister,
Mrs. Atwood, is now living, aged 1914
years.
The yellow fever appeared in Balm
bridge, Ca, week since, and is now
epidemic there. Business is suspended in
the town, and there is talk of closing up
many of the stores.
John Ii. Morelrs furniture warehouse,
in East Thirty-sccond street, New York,
was burned Tuesday night Loss, $780,
600 Robert Il. Stephenson was sullocat-
ed in the building
Great restitution is reported in several
counties in Alabama, but more especially
in Sumpter aud Marengo, in consequence
of the destruction of the cotton crop by
the rains and the army worm.
A Vermont professor, who recently tried
to mcsmerize Il bull by gazing fixcdly at
the ierocious beast, has just recovered
from the effects of his involuntary aerial
navigation, and has quite lost faith in the
power of the human eye over brutcs.
The testimony in the Tichbornc trial
has nearly come to an end After it is
finished, we will have some two or three
speeches, each consuming at least week,
and then the tired jury will bring in their
verdict-or more probably will disagree
Twelve more patient men than those in the
jury box since this case commenced it
would be impossible to find 1t has drag.
ged its slow length along for more than
one hundred days it we arc not mistaken.
Robert Sixbury died in Jefferson coun-
ty, n. Y. on the 23d ultimo aged l10
years and months. Among the attend
ants at his funeral were several of his chill
dren, aged between eighty and ninety
years Sixbury had great reputation as
n hunter, having killed over 1900 deer on
"John Browns tract, in Northern New
York. When past eighty he met with an
accident which made necessary the ampu-
tation of one of his legs.
The bale of cotton which was donated
by Col. Creed Taylor, of Arkansas, for the
benefit of the Memphis orphans, and sold
in that city for ffteen hundred dollars, was
subsequently shipped to st, Louis and sold
there for ninety dollars. 1t was then for
warded to Cincinnati, and on Monday was
sold on Change, and purchased by mem
bers of the Chamber of Commerce for 81, :
$50. 1t will now be shipped to some other
city, to be again sold for the same purpose.
The Protestant Episcopal Bishop of
North Carolina has issued pastoral re-
questing that collections for the relief of
Memphis be Immediately taken up in the
churches of his diocese At Louisville,
the subscriptions for Shreveport and Mem
phis, outside of the private remittances, "
have reached 1000. 1t is stated that
the appeal made by the Precursors of
Memphis has been so literally responded
to that they are now able to care for their
own sick and suffering without further
contributions
The remnant Of the Modoc band arrived
at Redding, Cal, on Thursday. People
focked from all quarters to see them, but
were rather disappointed at their appear
ance, for, being in Indian mourning, "thcy
all looked as though they had lain out all
winter under an ash heap The "Prin-
cess Mary" and Captain Jacks widow at
tractcd most attention, but could not have
looked much, if any, better than the others,
as they were smcarcd with star and ashes. -
All left in the cars the Same night for their
new home in Wyoming Territory, accom-
panied by military guard.
According to dispatch from Grcensbo-
ro, North Carolina, there has been unne-
cessary delay and gross Encouragement in
the arrests of counterfeiters in that State.
The original and carefully matured plan
determined upon by the Secret Service
corps, at Knoxville, was departed from,
and the Marshal did not act with the
promptuess aud secrecy required of him.
The prospect now is that number of the
countcrieitcs will escape. Nine arrests
were made in two of the counties, and
three Of the countcrleiters escaped OF
were lost after the capture
Tragic scenes in court-rooms during the
trials Of prisoners are becoming quite too
common. In Philadelphia on Tuesday
while James Kingswell was in the box
charged with numbering Francis Malone,
son of the latter cooly stepped up, and
in the presence of the Court and spectii-
tors attempted to stab the prisoner with a
dagger, and was only disarmed after a
desperate resistance. Respect for law is
getting very lax when assassination, in
the very presence of its highest officers,
becomes the project of the rufHan element
in so many cases.
A despatch from Cumberland, October
9th, gives the particulars of the most
painful tragedy that has occurred in that
city since Robert Swami shot William
Sprigg. John NJ. Resley entered tho of.
fee Of the Cumberland Times in tower
ing rage, shot the editor, Mr.. L. L. Clary
before he had time to answer the question
which he put to him, and then took his
leave, with the declaration that he ''was
ready for any of the friends IF tho n,ur.