The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-04-18
Items of News.

fifty dead bodies have been gotten out
Two thousand five hundred of the lead
ing business men of New York have
signed petition asking the President t.
veto the initiation measures of Congress.
Martin Sherlin, while out cunning will
his father, near Baltimore, on Saturday
accidentally shot himself in the head anC
breast, and is not expected TO recover.
Five negroes out of party Of ten who
were crossing the river from Portsmouth
to Norfolk, Va, on the Sth instant, in a
small boat, were drowned by the sinking
of the boat.
At East Douglass Mass, band of TEN.
perance crusaders recently called upon Mr.
Simpson, a well-known saloon keeper, who
politely invited them in, though apparently
in state of great agitation, After pray.
ing with him, they began reading the
Scriptures, when he suddenly seemed to
faint and fell to the floor. lie was i'm
mediately taken to his house, but remain
ed insensible and died in few hours
1t having been reported that a criminal
named Rohrer had been pardoned by the
Government of Wurtemburg, on condition
that he should cmigatc to the United
States, our Government instructed Minis
ter Bancroft to inquire into the matter.
The RESULT has been IA most explicit deni-
all of the report, and statement that the
Wurtemburg Government never grants
pardons on such conditions in any case
A meeting of prominent bankers, mer.
chants and capitalists of New York in oppo-
sition to initiation was held ON Wednesday
evening, Peter Cooper presiding. A pc
tition soliciting President Grant to inter-
pose his veto was signed, among others,
by majority Of the Presidents of the
banks. \ committee composed of leading
financial men was appointed to wait upon
the President.
The Cincinnati Enquirer gives an ae-
count of ease in that city in which man
lived for seventy hours with broken neck.
The man had fallen from an embankment,
fracturing the yertebre of the neck, and
completely severed the spinal cord The
surgeon in attendance reduced the frac-
ture, and the man gradually recovered
consciousness and showed himself to be
fully possessed of his mental faculties. He
gradually sank, and died seventy hours
after the accident occurred
Trouble is brewing in Arkansas. Mr..
Brooks, who claims to have been elected
Governor of that State in 1872, and has
since been prosecuting his claim in the
Courts, having obtained what appears to
have been a sort of snap Judgment on de-
murrcr ousting Governor Baxter, proceed
ed at once to eject the latter from his Of
fec by force, and to take possession by his
partisans Of the armory at Little Rock.
Governor Baxter has appealed 10 Presi-
dent Grant for the assistance of Federal
troops to rcinstate him. .
The six largest steamers in the world
are the Great Eastern, owned by the
International Telegraph Construction and
Maintenance Company, G73 feet long II
feet broad the City of Pekin Pacific
Mail Steamship Company 5000 tons,
423 feet long, i3 feet broad the Liguria
Pacific Steam Navigation Company h.
800 tons, 400 feet long, Is broad the
Brittanic white STAR 400 tons, 455
feet long, 45 broad the City of Richmond
(lnman,) 1900 tons, 1853! feet long, 43
beam and the Bothnia tCunard,) 1900
tons, AIS feet long, 42l broad.
AtMount Vernon, ILL.,, last Friday, Mrs.
). s. Wilson, with her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Thomas Watson, went to drug store and
demanded a prescription on which her
husband had been in the habit of obtaining
liquor. The proprietor of the store was
absent, and his clerk refused the demand
whereupon Mrs. Wilson levelled pistol
at his head and threatened to shoot him if
he did not comply. She was pursuaded,
however, to call ON the doctor who made
out the prescriptions, and by displaying
her pistol she induced him to revoke it.
The two women wound up by going to
another drug store and saloon, and Civ
ing orders at the pistols point against the
sale Of liquors to their husbands.
A very curious story about flock of
geese, comes to us from Butler county,
California. On the 18th Of last month
thunder storm passed over that district
accompanied by hail and snow aud very
vivid forked lightning. As the hail began
to fall and the lightning flashed, thousands
OF wild geese, which were in the ponds of
shallow water which exist in that locality
during very wet winters, suddenly rose up
in great futter, as if many hunters had
discharged volley among them. They
went up and up, apparently to rise above
the fearful cloud 1t was nearly dark
and those who saw them rise thought no
more Of it until morning, when they began
to find dead geese and hear of hundreds
being picked up by the neighbors. Some
seven hundred had been found. One man
picked up on his farm all two horses could
haul for their feathers. Their heads were
badly torn and their bills split into frag-
ments. Many of them had the feathers of
their backs crisped aud burnt and their
bodies burst open. The portion of the
country thus affected was about mile and
half wide and reached several miles into
Butte county. The terrific lightning in
this cloud was witnessed by people on the
Honcut in Yuba county and in the central
portion of this county. The thunder was
heard twenty miles distant.
A Baltimore boy met with a serious ac-
cident on the 18th instant, by having his
scalp torn by lioness belonging to Fore
paugh's menagerie, which is now being ex-
hibited in that city. The cage, containing
lion and lioness, was drawn through the
streets in the morning along with the cir
Gus procession, and at the time the boy
was hurt had stopped at the corner Of
Forrest aud Douglass streets to let other
cages pass by on their way to the tent.
AS the cage was uncovered, and nothing
separated the animals from the crowd but
the bars, great many boys, with the usu-
al juvenile disregard of danger and desire
for novelty, stood in close proximity to the
cage. One of the boys, thinking probably
that as the animals were small, they could
not be very vicious, amused himself by
poking a stick through the bars. 1t is