The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-24
News Of the Week.

Briar wood which comes from points on
the Potomac, York, james and Rappahan-
mock rivers, is worth s26 per ton.
John w. Garrett, President of the Bal.
timore and Ohio Railroad, arrived at Bal
timore Friday 18th, from Europe, in the
Steamship Braunschweig.
The opera house burned in Baltimore
last week, was the eighty-iifth theatre
destroyed by FIRE in this country. Balti.
more had previously lost four.
A letter from Havana, dated the 10th
inst. gives rumor that defalcation
amounting to one million dollars had been
discovered in the custom house there.
An ingenious Frcnchman in the Mary
land Penitentiary, has invented an i'm
provement for sewing the heels on shoes,
for which he has been offered $4,000.
Undertook has written a long, rambling
letter, addressed "To the World, asserting
that he is innocent of the murder for
which he has been sentenced to be hanged
The receipts of the Baltimore street car
companies for the last twelve months show
a falling of Of from $1,000 to $1,000 per
month, as compared with the previous year.
The records of the General Land Office
at Washington show that the total area of
the public domain is 1884, 1898, 400 acres,
Of which 1885 5,34S acres are yet to
be surveyed.
General Miles telegraphs to the Adju-
dant General from Texas that his command
is rapidly driving the hostile Indians in the
direction of the Cheyennes, where he be-
lieves they will surrender, if not before.
Seven hundred men were temporarily
discharged from the Grant Locomotive
Works, at Paterson, N. j. Monday, pend
ing adviees from Russia relative to the
completion of an order for locomotives.
The failure of Il. Il. Morgan & Sons.
San Francisco, is announced. They have
been acting as shipping agents for Califor-
MIA and Oregon grangers. London and
San Francisco banks are the principal
creditors. The amount of liabilities is not
known.
Secretary Bristow's notice that one Of
any two Of the same family employed in
the Treasury Department should be dis
charged was put into execution Friday,
when % clerks wcr informed that their
services would not be required after the
LIST of November.
At Portland, Me. Ansel Stephens has
been awarded $4,000 damages for injur-
les received while journeying upon the
Grand Trunk Railroad Ho rode upon u
free pass, which contained the usual stip-
ulation that the holder, ifinjured, should
not recover damages.
A train, containing u battalion of tho
Thirteenth Infantry, was wrecked near
Dyer, Tenn. on Thursday night of last
week, by the breaking of wheel of the
engine truck. The engine, four baggage
cars and passenger car were demolished
Two soldiers were killed and several injured.
The police of Washington have arrested
gang Of book thieves, who have been
stealing from the committee rooms of the
capitol. Documents to the weight of 1850
pounds have been recovered, but some Of
the volumes have been so mutilated as to
be useless. Most of them are valuable
documents, which can not be replaced.
The thieves actually cartcd away their
plumber from the rooms.
The sheriff of Porter county, Indiana,
sent despatch to Governor Hendricks,
Monday, stating that an armed gang was
resisting his efforts to protect the employees
Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, who
are attempting to lay track across the
Michigan Central road, aud asking aid to
quell the riot. The Governor at once or
dered two companies of militia and a
Gatling gun to the scene of the disturb
anco.
A cable despatch reports that Cecil
Buckhnd, the correspondent Of tho New
York Times at the headquarters of Don
Carlos, was captured and shot by the Re-
publicans few days since. Mr.. auckland
was private secretary Of Minister Jewell
at st. Petersburg He returned to this
country with Mr.. Jewell when the latter
accepted the Postmaster Generalsbip, and
Il was ON Mr.. Jewels Recommendation
that he was chosen special correspondent
of the Times. This statement has since
been denied.
The Commissioners appointed to exam
inc whether the deficiencies in the con-
struction Of the Union Pacific Railroad
have been supplied and the road completed
in accordance with the requirement, have
made favorable report. IL is dated at
Salt Lake City, October 18th. II will re-
auire the approval of tho President and
the formal acceptance Of the road as q
complete structure, before patents can be
issued to the Company for the reserved
land grants, amounting to over ~ ,00O, 900