The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-07-04
News of the Week.

s5,0O0,OOO for the month.
John Allen Kitchey was hanged on
Friday at Salisbury, n G. for an outrage
on Miss Nellie Bersherore in May, 1872.
A New York lawyer, who has made a
business of it, has procured FIVE thousand
divorces. One couple were divorced twice.
A boy of II years of age is under sen =
tence of death, in New Haven county, N.
Q, for having viciously drowned a smaller
boy
A local option election in San Jose, Cali
fornia, on Saturday, was carried for licens
by about 200 majority, after warm con
test.
A male and female ourang outang from
the Island of Java are among the latest
additions to the Jardin DIES Plantes at
Paris
Two deaths from hydrOphobia, in New
York, have occasioned immense excite
ment in that city, and the dogs are perish
ing by the thousand
Joseph s, Spnuge, in supposed state
Of insane melancholy, shot his daughter,
aged six years, and then committed suicide,
ut Boston, on Monday.
Gen. A. H. Burnside, Of Rhode Island,
will visit Knoxville, Tenn. on July 18th,
and will deliver an address before tho
Knoxville Typographical Union.
President Grant arrived at Charleston
w. Va on Saturday afternoon, and was
enthusiastically received by the people.
He returned to Washington Tuesday morn
ing.
Hon. Eugene Hale accepted the Post
master Generalship, and was to have en-
tered upon the office LIST of July but ON
that day declined, so that the Office goes
begging.
At the Friends yearly meeting at New
port, last week, venerable Quaker made
his appearance for the seventy-sixth time,
having been present at every meeting since
1898.
A couple were married the other day
in Taunton, Mass after patient courtship
Of thirty years. The clergyman who per-
formed the ceremony was not born when
they were afhanced.
White Mountain travel has set in, but
on very limited scale. There are few
improvements to note in that region. The
hotels are the same as last year and one
and all charge like soldiers
pittsburg has an alligator from the Red
River nine feet six inches long, and to
make him profitable it is proposed to put
him in the park in order that the children
may be kept off the grass.
Bendigo, formerly noted pugilist, is
now u Methodist preacher. He is preach
ing this summer in the midland counties
of England, and deyotes much time to
religious work among the poorer classes,
United States officials have made sue
ccssful raid upon illicit distilleries in Hab.
ersham and Rabun counties, Georgia,
and destroyed thirteen establishments
Eight arrests were made including two
"bushwhackers.'
A fishing schooner caught one hundred
and fifty barrels of mackerel in twenty.six
hours on recent trip between Plymouth
and Boston, yielding to the captain and
crew shout 81, $50 for their days work.
A conductor on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, named Lemoss, got his foot
caught in rail, at Benwood, W. Va. on
Sunday, and before he could discngage it
he was run over and killed by an approach
ing train.
Most of the Cabinet officers leave Wash.
ington this week. Secretary Fish will go
to West Point, Secretary Robson to Rye
Beach, and Secretary Delano to Mount
Vernon, Ohio. Internal Revenue Com
missioner Douglass is visiting his home
in Pennsylvania.
Milton S. Peeler, the Tax Collector for
Grant Parish, la. appointed by Governor
Kellogg, was arrested on Saturday, ON the
charge of having planned several robberies
and committed forgery. He was already
under bonds for embezzling several thou
sand dollars of the State funds
Samuel Mcdonald, indicted for the muir
der of Berry Amos on Tuesday week; and
William Clark and Henry Golibart, indict-
ed as accessories, were arranged in the
Criminal Court of Baltimore, before Judge
Gilmore, on Friday, and pleaded mot
guilty. Their trial was postponed until
the October term Of the court
Moses Jordan, seventy years of age,
committed suicide on Friday night of last
week by jumping out of ond.story
window ut the Sherman House, West
Chester lie had been low spirited for u
long time andA few weeks ago attempted
to take his life by cutting his throat He
leaves an estate estimated at from one to
two hundred thousand dollars, with few, if
any relatives to claim it.
On the 18th of July vote will be taken
in the counties of Caroline, Talbot, Queen
Anne's and Dorchester, on the question
of Local Option. The contest which vas
actively opened some weeks ago, is very
animated, and the grounds Of objection
are fought over inch by inch. The latest
objections raised by the antiprohibition-
lists was the illegality of the election with
out registration, the constitution requir-
ing registration to be made prior to each
election Attorney General Syester, how
ever, has come to the relief Of the Local
0ptionists, and says that no registration is
required.
The Governor has issued to the sheriff
of Talbot county his warrant for the exc
cution of Earnest Smith, colored, eonyic-
ted ofrape in the Circuit Court for Talbot
| county nj the Nav term. 1874 and SEN