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

Maine nay crop 81 last year MAS worth
s4O. 900, 200.
The French Minister to England Is paid
a salary Of 100000 4, year.
-Four inches Of snow fell al Boston and
POughkeepsie on Saturday night last
Chicago estimates that il has $50, 000,-
900 invested in hotels.
Daring last year the New York Post
Office received 10000, 900 foreign letters
The word "femaelstrom" has been adj
ded to the vocabulary Of the liquor crusade.
Maryland expends s4O,56l $40 for
liquors annually, 50 saysthe New York Post
The Kansas Horticultural Society, lately
in council, recommended planting orchards
on the highest lands.
A white elephant Is said to be on its
way to this country from Siam, to add to
the attractions Of one of the travelling me-
nageries.
The chemical works of Chapel Broth
ers, at Baltimore, were destroyed by FIRE
on tho 9th ultimo. The loss is estimated
Msl5O, 600.
The Missouri House of Representatives
has passed bill appropriating $40, 900 to
enable the Governor to bring james aud
the Younger brothers to justice.
A farm in Surrey county, Va, is to be
planted with 200, 900 pear trees, at cost
OF $50, 900, the object being to raise fruit
for shipment north.
The Methodist clergymen of New York
have been requested to select two women
from each congregation to form Central
temperance Union.
The body Of an aged woman, named
Roper, was found in a hogshead Of rain
water in the yard Of her residence, at
Washington, on Tuesday. 1t is supposed
she committed suicide in ct Of insanity.
A man, calling himself, j. Anderson,
opened store, some time since, on Cen
trail avenue, in Cincinnati. He obtained
Sl00, 900 worth Of goods on credit, and
has disappeared
On the occasion Of the entrance Of the
Duke and Duchess Of Edinburg into Lon
don, as much as $1,000 was offered and
refused for the temporary use of house
from which good view of the procession
could be obtained.
A man living near Scranton, Pa, re-
Gently, in leaving his bed, stumbled and
fell, his neck striking the chimney Of
lamp standing on the table The glass Of
the chimney severed the jugular vein, and
he blcd to death in few minutes.
The Siames twins were Baptists. But
says the Presbyterian, suppose one had
been disbeliever, how could the other have
been immersed ?" But another says they
were not Baptists they were United Breth-
rem.
The operatives in the cotton mill of
Gambrill & Sons, Woodberry, Md, struck
on Tuesday for ten hours. They number
375 men, women and girls. The mills
were closed and new set of hands en-
gagged.
The Earle farm, belonging to Anthony
Reybold, in Sassafras Neck, Cecil county,
Md, containing GO acres, has been sold
for s67 900. The Harlan 4 Holingsworth
Company, of Wilmington, Del, are the
purchasers.
A lady in Lake CITY. Florida has grow.
ing in her garden a genuine cort rec 20
feet high, the bark on which is sufficiently
thick to make bottle corks. There is also
in the same garden genuine black pep
per bush, which yields regularly full
crop Of the berries.
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Oregon advices report that the Indians
on the Malpear reservation shave grown
insolent," and trouble is feared 1t is
said that Agent Linvile discovered a
conspiracy among the indians to initiate
(, nos''.i''es' anu Una. many OF them have
iel. the reservation A detachment OF
troops mas oeeh sent 10 protect the agent
ana ms men
Middle and southwestern Georgia have |
had over two weeks Of almost steady rain.
The earth Ia an eatnrafa1 tlat ,,ianto,.,