The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-07-18


Half Of the business portion Of Senator,
III. was destroyed BY FIRE on Monday.
loss, sI50,0O0.
Three sisters, young and unmarried, are
the lessees Of large tract Of land In Tex
as, which they are cultivating They re-
fuse to allow any man, DID or young, to
set foot on the premises, snd do all the
farm work themselves.
We learn that j. Howard McIIenry,
Esq. Of Pikesville, snd Thomas Poultney,
Esq. owners Of the Pot Spring farm, Bal
timore county, are about to commence
trout breeding or fish farming, as il is now
called. Mr.. Poultney's farm is admirably
suited to the business.
The local option law in Mississippi is re-
ported to be 50 effective that ID is said faw
if any licenses have been granted in that
State since the passage Of the act, last
April. II requires majority ofvotes over
81, and females over is, residents in the
district, to sign the petition for license.
Twenty-three Cinnamon arrived at Cam.
dem street depot Baltimore, on Tuesday,
from Omaha. 1t Is stated that they con
template going into the laundry business,
and were conveyed in an omnibus to
Thames street, where they have friends
living.
A terrible accident occurred during
launch in the ship-yard of Baylis & Son,
at Jefferson, L. T. on Monday afternoon
As the vessel started heavy timber used
as wedge fell upon the spectators below,
killing four Of them and dangerously in
juting three others.
Mount Vesuvius is to have railroad
to the top costing s4,000,00O. The upper
station will be guarded by pent house,
SO as to protect it in case Of eruption, and
the line is to be constructed in such a way
that the utmost danger to be apprehended
is the loss Of few hundred feet Of rails.
Governor james L. Kemper of Va. paid
visit to Fort Monroe on Monday, and
was received with salute from the water
battery, after which he reviewed aud in
spected the troops Of the garrison. He
was accompanied by General William Ma
lone, Colonel John NJ. Robinson, and
number Of distinguished friends.
The strawberry season along the Hud-
son, which lasted for fifteen days, closed
on the 9Th instant. During its progress,
62,500 bushels were shipped from various
points along the river Two thousand
pickers got $50, 900 for picking them, the
freight amounted to S21 900, and the net
result Of their sale was s24O,000.
In Columbia county, Ga. on Friday
morning, colored man, named Dogett,
and his three sons, were arrested by q
deputy sheriff and his posse, for alleged
riotous conduct. Soon afterwards the pris-
oners attempted to run away, when they
were all shot dead by their captors A
coroners jury gave verdict of 'justi6a-
BILE homicide"
Paper -four barrels are being made in
Iowa, They are said TO be air-tight and
waterproof, TO weigh much less than the
ordinary wooden barrels, and to be able to
stand more rough usage. One of the
manufacturers predicts that in five years
every barrel of western -four will be sent
east in barrels made from the straw the
wheat grew in.
Despite the opposition of the Ritualists
and the Tories, the chances seem to be
that the House of Commons will follow
the other branch Of Parliament in the pas
sage Of the bill for the regulation ofpublic
worship. Whether it will tend to further
harmony in the Church or widen the ex-
listing breach is question that viii prob
ably soon be put to practical test
San Francisco anticipates doing large
business in sardines. A packing house
has been erected, and, as the fish are album
dant all along the Pacific coast from April
to August, is is anticipated that very
large business will be done. Having the
sardines and the means for curing them,
the proprietors of the establishment now
propose to get their olive oil from Mexico
A boy found gold dollar on an ant hill
in the old commissary building at Fort
Fillmore, New Mexico, short time since.
The following day three dollars were found
in the same place. They had evidently
been brought up by the ants. Search was
made, and small wooden box, badly
decayed, containing one hundred and
eighty gold dollars, was found about foot
below the surface.
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