The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-19

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The Superintendent Of Police, In New
York, has issued his orders against Sunday
thentricals.
Five thousand men are now employee
on tho centennial buildings aud grounds
Philadelphia.
During the third quarter of the prcsen
year 1885 horses, mules aud asses, wer'
slaughtered for food is Paris.
Don A. Pardee has been appointed
United States District Judge for Louisi
ana to succeed Judge Durcll
The Steamboat Booster, with 500 bales
Of cotton on board, was sunk in the Mis-
sissippi, near Alexandra, La on the 10th
A new hotel in San Francisco, is Il
have band of twenty performers, who
are to be regularly attached to the house.
John Neville, aged eight years, was
kidnapped at West Hoboken, on Thursday
night. He was playing with another child
when carried off,
Fourteen thousand cartridges were
recently shipped from Weldon, North
Caroliua, to stock the private parks Of
gentlemen in England
At Manchester, N. ii. ON Saturday, a
servant girl named Hattie Beaman muir
dered her illegitimatc child by cutting of
its head with pair Of shears.
Monday morning several colored girls
were introduced into the Girls High
School at New Orleans, whereupon fifty
Of the graduating class withdrew.
A young man went into barber shop
in Boston, on Saturday, took up a razor
and cut his throat while standing before n
mirror. He was desperate for want Of
work.
The schooner G.. VI. Pottridge, from
Baltimore for Belfast, Me. with grain,
went ashore on Cold Spring bar, New
Jersey, on Friday night, and will probably
be a total wreck.
A fire at Charlcstown, w. Va. on
Thursday night, destroyed hotel, seven
teen stores, the Mayors Office, an engine
house, and other buildings. The total loss
is estimated at 100000.
Eli Lauer and Abe Foster were arrested
in Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday, for max
ing and passing counterfeit nickels. Tools
and metal for making the spurious coin
were found in their possession.
An iron mill, at Apollo, Pa. is supplied
entirely by gas from well recently sunk.
The well itself is 1850 feet deep, and the
gas it produces is applied to the heating
furnace aud the furnaces under the boiler
There are, according to figures recently
given at the Methodist Episcopal Sunday
School Union, 10000 Sunday schools Of
that denomination in the United States.
These have 100000 teachers and AGO.
900 scholars.
An Eric, Pa. despatch states that b. +.
Erway and N. B. Adams, the counterfeit
ers who have been passing bogus tens Of
the Traders National Bank Of Syracuse,
have been arrested. They are believed to
be a part Of the Ballard gang.
Tweed's counsel are making another
effort to liberate the imprisoned Statesman
by process of law, The points raised are
the same as those passed adversely upon
BY Judge Barrett, but the application is
now made to Judge Lawrence.
The Special Agent of the Treasury
Department who has been examining the
Affairs of the Philadelphia Custom House.
has made a report severely criticizing its
management, and recommending large
reduction of the force employed.
The cotton crop of 1874 is estimated,
from the returns to the Department Of
Agriculture, ut somewhat more than g..
100000 bales. The reports from the
growers are almost unanimous in stating
that the proportion Of lint TO seed Is large
At Milwaukee, Monday morning, a
messenger Of Bradley & Metcalfs shoe
house went to the bank aud drew $500,
to pay the clerks and workmen. As he
was descending the bank steps some man
threw pepper in his eyes, snatchcd the
money, and escaped.
There were eight stations, in distant
foreign countries, at which parties Of
American astronomers and photographers
made observations Of the recent transit Of
Venus. The transit was successfully
observed at Hobart Town, Adelaide, Mel.
bourne, Teheran, and at points in India,
China, and Japan.
A flock of 10000 sheep arrived at
Omaha on the 25th ult. after travelling
400 miles in As days. They were the
property of Mr.. Perca, by whom over g..
900 ewes-not black one among them
were huddled together, the movement Of
their bodies, as the sun shose across them
reminding the beholder of the waves Of
tho sea.
Five children Of John Dotterich, resi-.
ding near Preaknoss, N. j. on Saturday
yentured upon the thin Ice Of small
pond with sled. The ice gave way 10
the centre Of the pond under their weight
and they were all drowned in sight Of their
mother, who was watching them play
from their house. -Four were girls, aged
l6, Is, ID and 8 years, and boy Of 6
years.
The manager Of the Gold Refining
Works in San Francisco tclcgraphs to the
Director Of the Mint that the recent dis.
eoycries on the Comstock Lode are said
to exceed all former developments. The
production Of bullion, being limited ouly
BY the mining capacity, viii probably be
forty million annually from April next
averaging forty per cent. gold, and the
production Of portable gold viii DO from
fifteen TO eighteen millions, depending
upon the rain fall
The people Of Boston passed night Of
alarm and fear between sunset on Monday
and dawn on Tuesday, Fire after FIRE
broke out in the city, aud the utmost en-,
deayor Of the dromen only prevented the
general eonAagration that seemed immi
nent The remarkable feature of these
disasters is that they we're in all probability
caused by inecndiaries. Confirmation !.
given to this belief by the fact that they
all commenced in buildings peculiarly
exposed to fire, and likely to spread The
flames far and wide. The entire loss will
amount TO nearly $500 900.