The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-11-21

The Court Of Appeals on Saturday last
affirmed the Judgement Of the court which
gave cx-Goy Bowie $4,000 damages
from the Baltimore aud Ohio railroad
company, for injuries received by Govern.
or Bowics horse Australia, about year
ago by the alleged carelessness Of the
company's employees.
BY direction Of the President, tele-
gram has been sent TO the Governor Of
Texas requesting him to postpone the cx-
ccution Of Santanta, until II eau be ascer.
tanned satisfactorily whether he violated
his parole. The President believes that
on this point the weight Of evidence thus
far Is in Satanta's favor.
Mr. Cresswel, one of the Commission
ers Of the Freedmen's Bank, says, accord
ing to the Washington Star, it will require
5000, 900 to enable the Commissioners to
declare a dividend Of 25 per cent. and as
yet they have collected but $4,000.
With careful husbandry of the resources,
Mr.. Creswell estimates that the bank will
eventually pay 40 per cent.
At Salisbury, N. G. on Sunday morning
18th instant two colored men went to the
house Of an old citizen supposed to have a
large sum Of money on hand, and demand
cd his cash. Being refused, one Of them
Cred ut the gentleman, and slightly
wounded him in the face. The old man s
wife, who is over fifty years of age, then
struck the assailant on the head with a
spade and killed him on the spot.
Gerdemann's preliminary examination
before police magistrate occurred in
Philadelphia on Monday afternoon His
counsel put in the plea that as the Church
whose funds he is accused of converting to
his own use is not chartered institution
action could not be maintained against
him for defalcation as trustee. State s
Attorney Mann made sharp reply to
this defence, aud the recusant priest was
then held in $40, 900 bail to answer the
charge of embezzlement.
The long-pending suit of the State Of
Maryland against the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company to compel the payment
by the Company in gold of the interest on
the loan made it by the State was finally
decided in the Supreme Court on Monday.
The unanimous opinion Of this tribunal
of fnal resort was in favor Of the Company
that the interest can be legally paid
in ordinary currency, and that there is no
authority in the contract for compelling
payment in gold This confirms the pre-
vious decision in favor Of the railroad
given by the Maryland Court of Appeals.
A most distressing accident occurred at
the Seneca coal mine, near Pittstop, Pa.
on Tuesday. Three men were at work in
one of the horizontal shafts, when the
roofing gave way, precipitating mass Of
rock upon them. One of them happened
to be near the outer edge, and escaped
with his life, although terribly lacerated
by the falling fragments Of rock. 1t is
supposed that it will require the labor Of a
large force of men for week or more Ia
clear away the debris so that the bodies Of
the other two men can be reached. Such
are the perils Of the coal mine.
Philadelphia has another abduction case
on hand which may turn out to DO as sad
and mysterious as that of Charley Ross
On Tuesday afternoon girl seventeen
years of age, named Annie Beaver, was
sent to grocery store at Eighth and Pop
lar streets to purchase few pounds Of
-four She did not return, and the family
with whom she lived becoming alarmed at
her prolonged absence, started out to look
for her. They found traces of -four spill
ed on the ground which seemed to indicate
that she had been carried into an alley
leading from Eighth street not far from hel
home. The police are searching for her.