The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-07-11
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TENDER, after another tour in the north Of
Europe
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln landed at Cher
bourg from New York june %, and went
to Paris.
General Bradley T. johnson has been
elected president Of the second branch Of
the Richmond va,) city council.
The President and Mrs Grant, accom-
panied by General Babcoek, arrived at
Long Branch on Saturday morning.
John Wesley, greatlereat-great grand
son of the great reiormer, was baptized on
Sunday, OF Bethlehem, n, II.
An application has been lodged with
the Attorney General of Great Britain on
behalf of tho Tiehborne claimant for writ
of error.
The market house aud ten dwellings at
Cirelevie, Ohio, were destroyed on Satur-
day by fire originating from fire-crackers,
Loss, $4,000,
Geu. Fitzhugh Les aud his brother Gen
Robert L. Lee, of the Confederate Army,
are engaged in farming on a large scale
near West Point, Va.
The Bonnet Care crcyasse is closed
and trains on the New Orleans, jackson
and Great Northern Railroad are running
regularly
A Balloon, with four men, which started
from Buffalo, n. Y. on the 18th inst came
down at Salem, n. ]. on the 9th inst. after
having been sixteen hours in the air.
The grasshopper plague is so severe in
Minnesota that the Commissioners Of the
county within which st. Paul is situated
have voted to appropriate $4,000 for their
relief
DIR, b. S. Callaghan, recently Grand
Lecturer Of the order Of Good Templars
in Maryland, has been appointed State Lee
tuer for Pennsylvania Of the Sous ofTem-
perance.
At Henry Ward Beecher's Church, in
Brooklyn, last Sunday, the organ perform
ance was interrupted by large eel, which
introduced himself into the supply pipe of
the hydraulic apparatus.
Two Cinnamon were arrested in San
Francisco GU Friday, for the murder of one
of their countrymen ia 1872 Soon after
the murder they fed to China, but recent
ly returned.
Gov. Groome on Wednesday commuted
the death sentence of Charles IL. Jones,
colored, to confinement in the peuitentiary
for q years. The Judges of the several
Baltimore city courts signed the petition.
At Enterprise, Miss. on Saturday morn,
ing, colored man committed fclonious
assault upon girl five years Of age. He
was lodged in Jail, but mob took him
out aud hanged him to neighboring tree.
At Toronto, Ontario, Edward CLEVER
and Moses Cluskey engaged in prize fight
After a few blows had been exchanged
Cluskey fell dead. The immediate cause
of death was heart disease. Clevier was
taken into custody,
DIR. J. r. Jennings, prominent physi-
elan Of Nashville, Tenn. committed suicide
at the hotel at Narrangansett pier Rhode
Island, on Tuesday morning. His niece,
a daughter Of Governor Wise, of Virginia,
was with him at the time.
Arson Marshall, prominent lawyer of
Concord, N. II. was accidentally shot and
mortally wounded while mt WALKING with
his wife and child on Saturday. A mill
tary corps were firing at target in the
neiOhborh ond and he was sty,,cE hy 4, hall
Mrs. Mary Shaw, of Manayunk, died
suddenly at Cape May, oh Monday morn.
ing, after going into battle. 1t is said she
was in very feeble health and went into
the water against the advice of her physi.
elan. She was So years of age and leaves
eight children.
The Supreme Court Of Iowa has con-
tirmed verdict of three thousand dollars
against saloon keeper of Clinton, in that
State, for selling liquor to drunkard The
complainant was the wife of the unfortu-
nate, who could not restrain his appetite
for strong drink
A fire in Allegheny CITY. Pa. on Satur.
day afternoon, destroyed over 100 build
ings, mostly dwellings. and made many
families homeless. The FIRE began in a
carpenter shop. and is supposed to have
been started by FIRE crackers thrown in nv
boys. The total loss is estimated at $780,
600.
There are at present fifty-eipht tobacco
factories in Richmond, Va. Working on full
time, and employing on an AVERAGE abont
one hundred hands each OF cigar man.
ufactories there are forty.four in operatiop
in Richmond, but the humber az hands
employed bears no comparison with those
in the tobacco factories
In tho s,eon,o ob,so a,In.p.L
Saturday, J. Donahuc's horse Tammanv
fell twice, and was so badly injured that
he died before he could be removed from
the track. George AYERS horse yictor
injured his fetloek. and was shot soon ai,er
the race. One of the riders was lillcd
also. This is rare sport
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