The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-01-17
Items q News.

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A PitssbaFg peanut vendor has ST., OOt
Ia bank.
A fire in Boston on Tuesday dcstroyc,
over 100000 worth Of property.
New Orleans had 100000 Gre OF
Tuesday,
Pittsburg spends s2,00e,000 for iutoxi
eating drinks
Williamsport has 226, 942, ZIG feet Of
lumber ready for the spring trade,
New York city required for food las.
year 442,T44 beeves, 470l mich cows
ll6,0l5 calves, ,206,7l5 sheep and lambs
and / 1858, $3.50 hogs.
Miss Mary Charlton, Of Chicago, ha.
been elected third assistant clerk of the
Illinois House Of Representatives. Hei
competitions were all men.
Nearly the whole business portion Of
the village of Natiek, Mass, was destroyed
by fire on Tuesday The loss is estimated
at s5o0,O00.
The Hartford Times has invented new
verb. IL says that City Treasurer Gage,
Of Chicago, has ~Iregulascdn to the
amount of 100000. Who is next
Both Houses Of the Texas Legislature
met in the State Capitol az Austin, Tues
day, aud organized without opposition
from Governor Davis or the Federal au-
thOritieS.
l. n. Stillwell, President Of the First
National Bank Of Anderson, Ind, has
been arrested for embezzling the bank 5
funds. L. b. Bline, cashier of the same
bank, has disappeared.
A deficiency of $4,000 is reported in
the Brooklyn tax Office, and Deputy
Collector Gill has been suspended pending
an investigation, and held in $4,000
bail.
IL IS reported from Madrid that General
Sickles considers himself badly treated BY
Secretary Fish, and that when he comes
home be will make statement for his own
vindication.
John II. Buttriek, Cashier of the
Wamesit National Bank, is charged by
the Examiner with deficiency" Of sl5,-
900. The Examiner says, however, that
the bank will lose nothing, the amount
having been made good.
Orders were received at the Portsmouth
Navy Yard, on Saturday, for general
discharge Of the working forces there, on
account Of the reductions ia the naval
appropriations. About 1000 men are
employed in the yard
The stock of Hu7tz Brothers furniture
store in New York was damaged by fire
on Saturday night to the extent Of about
5O,0O0, and the building to the extent of
$4,000. Sheahy Brothers, carpet dealers.
lost about $4,000 worth Of
stock.
There have been 100000 trade dollars
coined thus far, and there is a continued
demand for them. They have been made
> legal tender in Hong Kong and Shanc.
haze, and are driving the Mexican dollar
from China. The latter coin, unlike our
own, is not of uniform weight and quality.
The British steamer Ravensworth Castle.
reported totally wrecked by a cable despatch
published on Saturday, cleared from New
Orleans on December 18th, with 10000
bushels of wheat, on Antwerp account.
Her cargo, valued at 1920, 900, was mainly
insured in English companies.
Captain Urquhart, of the American shin
lrimountain, has received handsome |
from the Mayor, Society of
Merchant Ventures and citizens of Bris.
oil, England, for his humane conduct in
aking from the LOchearn, and carving |
o England 50 survivors of the Vile dq |
IIavre.
The Cambridge MeUs says:-A very |
treat effort is being made throughout |
Dorchester county to induce the MARYLAND
legislature to permit the citizens Of the
iifferent districts of Dorchester to decide
y ballot upon the local option liquor law.
10 accomplish this end, petitions are being
in every district for signers
The fire in Helena, Montana, on FRIDAY,
destroyed the Chinese quarter, and a large
'ortion Of Main, Clover, Wood, jackson
nd Bridge streets. The International
nd Cosmopolitan Hotels, First National
nd Peoples Banks, Gazette printing Office
nd many stores, were burned. The total
'ss is estimated ut $3.50 900.
For eight days after the recent death Of
he DowageF Queen Elizabeth OF Prussia
he widow Of Frederick William Nv. All
heatres and places of public amusement
Prussia were closed by order of the
government General mourning is to he
bserved for six weeks from the death
he church bells are to be tclled daiiy
rom twelve to one, and black sealing wax
to be used IN the Government Offices.
The railroad magnates 10 New York
ave taken alarm at the news from Wash.
lgton, that the House committee ba wing
10 matter In charge have agreed to report
no McCrary bill to place all the great
mes under the control Of a Bureau of
'ailroad Commissioners, with power 10
reserlbe rates for passenger fares, frejshts
.. Commodore Vanderbilt n credited
nth the remark, if any such blu as this
'as 70 become law, the only road that
Iaala DO promoted by il would be the
load to Ruin. w
The detectives have hunted down
tephen Raymond in London, and he will
returned to New York under the
xtradition treaty. Raymond was one Of
90 gang OF forgers who, during last Sum-
Ter, put out eight hundred thousand
oliars worth Of spurious railroad and
Their bonds, and disposed of quarter as
million OF them before them were re- detec.
I'd. They were the most adrolt and dar.
y tosgens In the United States. but six
I, them are already in Jail, and RAYMOND
Ill probably soon be sent to Join them
here. Raymond was brought 70 New
ork, and escaped from the officers who
ad him in charge. When last heard from
was in Canada. 49,
a poor man in scranton, Pa, lost n
MD BY smallpox. During the sickness
was obliged to beg bread, but 50 fearful
ere the people Of coming in contact with
i'm that the morsel that he ala ,oca;va