The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-12
News of the Week.
New York charities disbuse s,
annually 70 the poor.

instant, aged As years.
The annual meeting Of the Pennsylva.
mia State Grange takes place at Williams
port on the 9th of January.
The shipments of iron ore and pig iron
from the Lake Superior region has fallen
off 26O,926 gross tons since last year.
The manufacturers of artificial ice at
San Francisco made last year, it is said, a
net profit Of $3.50 900 on their patent.
The cats in Detroit have had bad
time since the boys discovered that their
skins had remarkable value of ten cents
Edward j. Stevens, Esq. living on
Sharps Island, in the Chesapeake bay,
killed twenty wild geese one day last week.
At Montgomery, Ohio, few nights
since, Mrs Daniel Logan was killed by
falling off the bed and breaking her neck.
She weighed $50 pounds,
The woman suffrage amendment to the
Michigan constitution was defeated by n
vote of ISL 900 against the amendment,
to $4,000 in its favor.
The increase of Lutherans in America
the past year was 29,lG0 COMMITMENTS.
They have 2,5l6 pastors, 1896 congrega-
tions, and $50, JIG members.
Ebert Jackson and Lewis Jarvis, in
dicted for the murder Of Samuel j. Jones
at South Oyster Bay Long Island, have
been sentenced to be hanged January Is.
1t is reported that the people of Milton,
New Hampshire, are so much discouraged
by their losses by the recent FIRE, that there
is probability of the town not being re
built.
The importations of dry goods at New
York, for the last eleven months amount
to sl02, 057 1856, which is about S9,000,-
900 below the total sum for corresponding
months last year.
The State of Ohio began suit at Cincin
natl on Saturday, against Hamilton county,
for the recovery of s66 900 in State taxes,
alleged to have been Incorporated by
the county authorities.
Henry II. Dean, n soldier of the British
army who served under Wellington at
Waterloo, died at Prospect Hill, Wiscon-
sin, on November %, at the age Of 95
years He had lived in this country about
40 years.
Judge Swayne, of the United States
Supreme Court, reached his 10th year on
Monday He is therefore entitled under
the law to retire from the bench on full
pay. lie intends to do so, but has not yet
fixed the time
The Acknowledgement of Minnesota
began suit on Saturday, at st. Paul,
against ex-State Auditor McIlrath for the
recovery of s94 600 alleged to have been
wrongfully withheld from the State during
McIlrath's official term Of nine years.
| A baby only year old was recently
sent by express from one New Hampshire
town to another, duly labelled and propped
up in big arm chair, with a turkey and
another express package before it to pre-
vent its falling out. 1t evidently suffered
greatly from its uncomfortable situation.
The proprietors of the Reading Eagle,
Mcssrs. Hawley Il Ritter, convicted of
libel in publishing an article deiaming the
character of Mr.. Ross in connection with
the abduction of Charles Brewster Ross,
were called up for sentence in court in
Philadelphia Saturday morning, and fined
| 81 900
John Harmon, oolored man in Som
erset county, has COW, now only six years
old, which has produced ten calves during
the past three years - four june 3D.,
1871 three Aug. I'd, 1872, and three
Nov. 18th, 1874 The truth Of this mar
vellous story is vouched for by the True
lMaryimder.
On Saturday morning, Joseph F. Brown,
while hunting on the summit Of Brush
Mountain, four miles from Altoona, fred
ut another hunter named John Thompson,
whom he mistook for deer, and killed
Thompson on the spot. Brown gave him
self up to the authorities, but was exoner-
ated by the verdict of corouer's jury.
4 There is gloomy prospect ahead for
Pittsburg. A strike of the puddlers has
caused the closing of all the furnaces and
rolling mills, throwing 20, 900 to 40, 900 men
out of employment, and stopping the dis
tribution Of Sl,000,000 week in wages.
The reduction of wages proposed by en-
ployers was not very great; but the pud-
dlcrs could not stop to discuss the question;
they determined on the strike at once.
Lincoln May, colOred, aged II years,
on the 4th instant, killed a white boy,
David Heating, aged 10 years, by shooting
him in the head, near Chcstertown, Md.
The gun was heavily charged with duck
shot, and Keatings head was almost en-
tiroly shot off hisbody. May was arrested
and confessed to committing the deed,
assigning that they had quarrellcd in the
morning, and that Heating had slapped
him.
Our imports from Canada during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1874, were
valued at s3S, lbs, 004, including $685.
956,312 subject to duty, and 81, POI ,692
not dutiable. During the same period,
the United States exported to Canada
domestic products to the value of $685.
929 $50, and foreign products TO the value
of 81, 1892 OF our Canadian imports,
s13, 562, 1897 came by land, sl6,3l9 ,399
in foreign vessels, and ss,275,G63 in
American bottoms.
The Montreal Star of Saturday, pub
fishes statistics showing the number of
deaths in Montreal during the last eleven
months to have been $3.50, including 66l
from small pox. Outside the city limits
there were 1929 deaths, of which small
pox caused 800. This makes the death
rate of Montreal 46 per 1000, or Is more
than in New York and double that of
London, England The Star calls upon
the Catholic clergy to favor vaccination,
against the French doctors, who oppose it,
At Corrinth, Miss, on Monday after
noon, four men went to the Tishomingo
Savings Bank aud commanded the Prcsi-
dent TO give up the keys. He refused,
and was attacked by knives and compelled
to yield. The robbers than carried off
$4,000 10 currency and about as much
more in watches and diamonds. A colored
man who was in the bank making a de-