The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-02-28
Items of News.

A Leayenworth Kansas man, who has
married and buried three sisters, is about
10 commence on another family.
Charles Shirley Brooks, the celebrated
English novelist aud dramatic author, is
dead.
Elijah Harden, who has served two
wears Of d sentence for Ku-Kluxism, in
the Albany Penitentiary, has been par
doned by the President.
Stephen Lowery, the sole survivor Of
the notorious Lowery gang Of outlaws, in
Robson county, N. C., has been shst
dead.
The fathers of Quincy, ILL.,, won't allow
any Of their daughters to take music
lessons until they can make bread as well
as their mothers.
]. NJ. Kimberly, well known citizen
of Baltimore, committed suicide on Satur-
day afternoon last. He had been in i'll
health for sometime.
A dispatch from Portland, Oregon, says
the horse and cattle disease has broken out
In Baker county, Oregon, aud is spread
ing extensively, with very fatal effects.
The city of Cory, Pa, has paid $1,000
interest on its counterfeited bonds. The
counterfeit was so good that the Cory
Savings Bank bought $4,000 Of them,
and tho mayor at first pronounced his own
forged signature genuine.
The Indian troubles of the Red Cloud
Agency are said to have sprung from the
furnishing of supplies Of -four absolutely
unfit for use by civilized or savage men,
and it is stated that this -four was substi-
tuted for a good article that had passed
inspection at st. Louis,
The Rhode Island Prohibitory Conven-
ton met at Providence Monday, and
nominated the following State ticket -
For Governor, Henry Howard Lieutenant
Governor, w. Y. Sayles; Secretary of
State, j. M. Alderman Attorney General,
Edwin Mctcalf Treasurer, Henry Goff.
In Chicago, last week, two dogs in different
parts Of the city, who were supposed to have
been hydrophobic, took run through the
streets, and before their careers were end
cd, they had bitten seventeen people and
upwards of sixty quadrupeds of their own
species.
Asa Packer of Mauch Chunk, is one of
the rich men in Pennsylvania. He is
said to be worth s25 100000, and began
life without penny as the driver Of a
canal boat on the Lchigh canal. His for
tune came mainly from the purchase at
low rates Of coal lands in the region of
his present place of residence.
The new Brooklyn Tabernacle, which
was dedicated on Sunday, is said to be the
largest Protestant Church edifce in the
country. Its seating capacity is for 1900
persons. The interior is shaped like an
amphitheatre, with the floor sloping down
towards the pulpit, and a gallery which
goes round three sides of the building also
slopes in the same way.
Assistant Bishop Pinckney, Of Maryland,
preached to large audience in Washing
ton on Sunday night, on the Cummins
movement. He argued that all tendencies
to change the established forms were
subversive Of Christian independence, and
he cautioned his hearers against such
destructive tendencies. He said the Prayer
Book had the stamp Of antiquity, was the
echo of the Bible, and was safe rule to
follow.
At meeting Of working men in India
napolis, on Saturday, resolutions were
adopted declaring for the organization Of
al branches of labor TO WELD the ballot
for their own protection; denouncing
monopolies and all restrictions upon the
channels of trade; approving of arbitra-
ton for the settlement of disputes between
employer and employed, and opposing the
contract system of labor in penal and
reformatory institutions, aud the system Of
working over time.
Compare the publisher Of newspaper,
who has to 90 all around the country to
collect his pay, to farmer who sells his
wheat on credit, and not more than a
bushel to any person. If any farmer will
try the experiment of distributing the
proceeds of his labor over two or three
counties, with an additional one to two or
three distant States, for one year we will
guarantee that he will never, after that
YEARS. experience, ask a publisher to supply
him with paper year or two without
the pay for IT,
The Montour (Pa.) american relates
that, recently, in that vicinity, boy,
named Eugene Morrison, was engaged in
cutting fodder with power cutter, when
his left hand was accidentally caught under
the feed roller, and, no other person being
present TO come to his assistance, his entire
arm was fed under the knife aud chopped
of, in inch slices, from the fingers up
until within four or FIVE inches Of the
shealder joint, when the strap connecting
the machine with the power was accidentally
thrown off and the life of the boy thus
saved.
At nine o'clock Monday morning, a
field Of ice, several miles in extent, was
driven by the high wind from the mouth
Of Saginaw river into Saginaw Bay,
Michigan. About 300 fishermen, with
several teams and sleighs, were on the ice,
which, after drifting several miles in a
northeastcrly direction, was driven by n
change of the wind TO the east shore of the
bay. Here twe hundred of the men
succeeded In getting ashore, but two,
named H. j. Smith and John Fourier,
were drowned. Little apprehension was
felt Cor the safety Of those who remained
on the ice, ms It was Ia solid field from
twelve 10 twenty inches In thickness, and
the men were well supplied with shelter,
food and fuel Saginaw Bay, the scene Of
the accident, Is on the west side Of Lake
Huron. Latter accounts state that all
have reached the shore in safety, and no
lives lost as was first stated.
The New York Stock Exchange was
victimized last week by singular hoax.
While the Board was in session one Of the
pages handed the Vice President letter,
which be opened and read aloud. Il was
to the effect that the Western Union
Telegraph Company was about to issue
some seven millions additional stock, and