The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-08-15

tries specdier and more agreeable. With
the present capabilities Of engineering the
plan Is declared to be perfectly feasible in
execution, and to depend alone upon an
assured supply of money to pay the labor
aud skill required The expense would be
enormous of course, and it is proposed that
i shall be assumed by the English and
French Governments jointly. Its adyo-
Gates claim that the cost Of the tunnel
would be less than Is supposed, from the
fact that the English Channel is in no
place very deep. This Last inference they
draw from tho turbulent character Of the
waves, so well known to every passenger
who has encountered them on one Of the
uncomfortable yet staunch little steamers
that ply between Dover and Calais.
The long talked of fight between Coll
yer and Edwards came of Tuesday on tho
banks Of the Ohio river, some thirty miles
below Pttsburg Ten rounds were fought,
in majority of which Edwards seemed
to have the advantage In the eleventh
round Collyer's seconds claimed that Ed
wards was using drugs on his hands, which
had a binding effect, known as Grossitt's
preparation, which among sporting men is
dreaded as likely to blind an opponent, and
dispute arose which broke up the fight.
The referee decided that the stakes, 81
900, and the belt belong to Edwards.
In Boston this year there arc no less
than 1850 pieces Of real estate put up for
sale for unpaid taxes. Last year there
were 1881 properties condemned and sold
for this delinquency, so that this season
there arc $40 more, whilst the size of them
is generally larger, and the aggregate de-
linquency considerably greater than last
year. The Boston newspapers say that
the dullness of business and the excessive
speculation in real estate are the reasons
OF this increase.
The grasshoppers are reported to have
deyoured all the vegetation in Northern
and Southwestern Kansas and Nebraska,
their rayages being greater than in 1866.
The corn crop throughout the region Wis
tied by them is said TO be Destroyed
Trains on the railroads have been stopped
one train was nine hours going eleven
miles. A famine is feared, aud contribu-
tons are asked for.
Right Rev. Henry John Whitehouse,
Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Illinois,
died Monday morning in Chicago, aged ~.
He had been Bishop Of Illinois for twenty
years. At the time of bis election he was
rector Of the church Of Thomas in New
York DIR. Whitehouse was an eloquent
preacher, and was noted as the leader Of
the Ritualists in this country.
Mr.. Marsh, keeper Of the new lighthouse
at Hereford Inlet, near Five Mile Beach,
Cape May, has been missing since Sunday
morning, when he went home after visit
to the Court House. His boat was found
on Monday turned up Shutdown. W. w.
Ware, of the life saving station, will have
temporary charge of the lighthouse.
The STANDARD Oil Works and National
Refinery, at Pittsburg, Pa. were struck by
lightning on Thursday night, and $500
barrels of coal oil were burned. On the
opposite side of the river the Fairview Oil
Works were struck at the same time and
81 900 barrels of oil were destroyed
Charles W. Pumphry, aged about Is,
residing near Marlborough, Prince Georges
county, Md. was fatally injured by being
kicked by horse on Thursday of last
week, and not "beaten to death by heavy
oak club as first reported. He died on
Saturday.
The semi-annual session Of the State
Grange Of Patrons of Husbandry of Mary
land began in the Masonic Temple, at
Baltimore, Tuesday night. Two hundred
and twenty delegates, representing twenty
two subordinate oranges, were present.
Nine men were precipitated from scat
fold in ship yard at Marsh Bridge, N, B,
last Saturday, and fell distance of thirty
FIVE feet. All were badly injured, and two
Of them named Duncan and Mcdonald,
are not likely to recover.
John Hall and Charles McEwan, aged
respectively 0 and ID years were drowned
on Monday, while bathing near the steam
boat landing at Cape Island Their bod
les were not recovered.
A negro named Henry Glover raped
and brutally beat respectable white wo-
man in Lexington, South Carolina, on Sat.
urday. He was caught on Wednesday
and lynched
An agricultural journal maintains that
alum water is quite as destructive to in
sects as Paris green, and unlike the latter
is not at all dangerous to leave about the
house.
The cistern Of the Palace Hotel, San
Francisco, California, when finished, will
hold 100000 gallons of water. II is
the largest in the world.
A dispatch from Little Rock, Arkansas,
August 10, says the past four days have
been the hottest known, the thermome.
ter standing at 1862.
Secretary Belknap left Washington on
Monday night, to spend week or ten
days with his family at New London.
Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, and
family, aud large number of friends, ar
rived at Cape May, on Tuesday evening.
Surveys are being made for another in.
ternational railroad bridge across Niagara.
1t is to be built at Grand Island,
The membership of the Oranges in
Maryland has increased to 5000, and the
number Of Oranges to $50.
Gold has just been discovered in Som
erset county, Me. and a company has al
ready begun mining.
The Schuylkill at Pottstown is to be
stocked with white perch.
Mackerel are very numerous on the
coast Of Maine.
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