The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-01-31
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in Baltimore in August.
General $. b. Maxey hos been elected
United States Senator from Texas.
There Is deficiency in the Indian Blu
reau Of $500, O0O Cor the last iieal year.
GEea. destisation among the poor Is re-
ported in New York.
The daily production Of the oil regions
Is estimated at 10000 barrels.
Charles West, Jr,, Of wayncsbOrO, Pa,
committed suicide BY hanging on Tuesday.
Nantucket, Mass, Custom-house cost
81 $751; 20 last year, and the receipts were
sS2.s7.
By new lnw in Illinois, farmers may
protect their sheep by scattering poison for
the benefit Of stray dogs.
A lady suffering from heart disease fell
dead in the arms Of her husband, in
Baltimore horse car on Monday.
On the 10th instant, Mr. Jos, Baugher
and wife, Of Frederick, celebrated their
golden wedding.
Ripe strawberries were gathered from
an open field, near Crisfeld, Nd. last
week.
In Baltimore county, Nd, recently, n
Miss Jet, increased her value BY becom
ing Mr. Ruby.
Out of the six million eggs Goldfish has
been known to spawn in one ycar. less
than hundred survive.
A large and enthusiasts centennial
meeting was held in Baltimore on Thurs
day evening.
Twenty-Five hundred ship carpenters, at
Camden, New jersey. have quit work be-
cause their wages were reduced from $3.50
to So per day.
The highest newspaper Office in the
world . at Cerro de Pasco, a village ON
the slope Of the Andes, $4,000 feet above
the level Of the sea.
GlcveEville, in Fulton county. n. Y,
Is entirely given up to the manufacture of
gloves. More than 1000 people are EN-
ployed in the industry.
The number of vessels totally lost at
sea during the month of November, 1873.
was 23s, Of which PIT were sailing vessels
and 81 steamers.
Mr. Enoch Pratt having declined the
Presidency of the Baltimore City Passen-
ger Railway Co., Ex-Governor Bowie has
been elected in his stead at a salary Of
$4,000 per annum.
On the 23d instant Marshall Morton was
hung at Martiney, CAL, for murder
When the drop fell his head was entirely
severed from his body, which fell lifeless
to the ground
Crow shooting matches appear to be the
order Of the day in Delaware, where crows
instead Of pigeons are used, and the crows
are so plentiful that sportsmen have no
trouble in capturing them.
General Humphreys, chief of the En-
gineer Corps, win make a report in a few
days, in favor of the feasibility and
utility of the Fort st. Philip ship canal,
near the mouth of the Mississippi.
The accounts of the Delaware Peach
crop sent to market during 1873 have just
been made up, and show ?, l09, 1874 baskets
quite decrease compared with the crop
marketed in 1872, which yielded 1865, 526
baskets.
The trial of Page McCarty, who shot
Major Mordecai 10 duel near Richmond,
Va, last May, was concluded ut late
hour on Saturday night He was found
guilty OF involuntary manslaughter, and
was fined $500.
The medical faculty of New York and
Philadelphia have offered $4,000 for the
bodies Of the Siamese Twins, who recently
died at Mt. Airy, North Carolina. Ifsuc-
cessful in their purchase an autopsy will
be made.
The Indian agent at Duluth, MINI. tel
egraphs contradiction of the report that
the Yermillion Lake Indians are diving Of
starvation. He says he visited their camps
and found them supplied with -four and
pork purchased by themselves"
A man named james Costello died re-
Gently, in New York, worth $500, 900, who
was unable to read and write Patience,
industry and natural aptitude for bust
ness had enabled him to acquire this
wealth, although he had never learned to
write his name
Alex. ID. Hamilton, Treasurer of jersey
City, has decamped with several thousand
dollars of city money. At meeting of
the Board Of Finance il was discovered
that over 100000 of the water bonds
were missing; also Hamilton's official
bond
At Forestyille, in Schuylkill county, Pa,
on Friday night, man named Bradley
was shot dead while eating supper, by
another man named Farrell The latter
afterwards cut his victims body in two,
and threw il into n mine. Mrs. Bradley
gave the alarm, and the murderer was
arrested at Minersville on Saturday, and
taken to Pottsyille.
Marie Verdin, girl eighteen years Of
age, is attracting the attention Of the
medical faculty Of Paris. She is afflicted
with strange infirmity, known as mycta-
IoPe--that is, losing the faculty Of sight
when the sun is above the horizon and
regaining il in the night time. During the
day Mile. Verdin is obliged to keep her
eyes closed and to wear thick veil
but in utter darkness she can see so as
to read and write with perfect ease,
| The whole number of commercial and
financial failures throughout the whole
country during the year 1873, is authori.
tatively computed at 5,l81, against 1869
in 1872. Total liabilities for 1873, 1929
490,O 900, against 1921 ,056, 900 in 1872.
In New York the failures were GA, and
the liabilities s92 ,635, 900. Pennsylvania
is credited with $40 failures, with liabilities
amounting to s31 $4,000
! A communication from the Commis-
sioner of Indian Affairs relative to the