The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-04-25

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The catch of shad In Albemarle Sound.
North Carolina, is said to be fifty per cent.
greater this season than for many years
before. The herring catch is also heavy.
The third session Of the National Agri-
cultural Congress will DO held at Atlanta,
Ca, on the 18th Of May. Charles w.
Greene, of indianapolis, Ind, is the
secretary.
Another California gold fever is threat
ened. Some wonderfully rich diggings
have been discovered on. the San Jacinto
river, about fifteen miles east Of TemescaI;
and the story comes that people are flock
ing thither in great numbers
In q suit brought by Dutch bondholders
against the st. Paul and Pacific Railroad
Company, the New York Tribune says the
Government is put in the light of pawn
broker, having lent money to a banking
firm with old iron as security
A fire in Richmond, Va, Tuesday night
destroyed the Columbian Flour Mills of
Haxall, Crenshaw & Co., with valuable
machinery and large stock Of grain
aud flour. The loss is estimated at $780,
900.
Over $4,000 worth of silks have been
sliced by the customs officers on the
Cunard Steamship Russia, at New York.
An attempt was made to land the goods in
trunks, as personal baggage. 1t is said
they belonged to wealthy importer on
Broadway
The Philadelphia Sunday Press pub
lished well-told story of a physician of
that city who subjected the remains of q
deceased son to the process of cremation.
The telegraph took hold of the story and
sent it out as the relation of an actual
fact. The Press of Monday, says it was
all joke,
A company has been soliciting permits
sion of the Turkish Government to dredge
the port of Rhodes, to recover the bronze
guns and other things said to have been
thrown into the water at the time of the
famous struggle between the knights of
st. John and the Turks under Solyman.
Another detective has been murdered
in Missouri by the notorious james Broth
ers. His body was found in the road near
Elkhorn. A card covered with blood was
pinned to the coat, inscribed, This shall
be the fate Of all Of Pinkcrtons gang who
come to hunt the James Brothers" The
card was signed "Jessc James-Frank
james
The principal portion of Ishpenning,
Mich, was destroyed on Sunday night by
an incendiary FIRE. A man who was
accused Of having caused the fire was shot
at, but it is not stated whether he was
killed or wounded The loss is estimated
at Sl50,000. A fire engine was sent from
Vergcnnes, three miles distant, and during
its absence five buildings in Vergenncs
were also burned. The loss in the latter
town is 100000.
At Stoningtou, Conn, on Sunday night,
Irving and CORTLAND Langworthy, sons of
Henry d. Langworthy, were murderously
assaulted during the absence of their
parents at church. Irving was killed and
CORTLAND is not expected to recover from
his wounds An axe, with human skin
and hair upon it, was found upon the
premises, and is supposed to have been the
weapon used. Suspicion falls upon a
hired man, who is under arrest.
The affairs of the iron masters of Penn
sylvania arc not so gloomy after ALL The
New York Times has taken pains to send
a special correspondent into the iron dis
tricts to get at the truth of the matter,
aud reports that although the iron trade is
suffering and depressed the prospects are
mending, and, in fact, quite hopeful. The
temporary dullness, caused by the dilatory
action of Congress on the currency ques-
ton, is drawback to this industry; but
the revival cannot be far distant, aud there
will be good time in the iron trade again.
The Department Of Agriculture has very
favorable information Of the condition Of
the winter wheat crop throughout the
country. In the South the crop is lux
urant, and in the Middle States the
promise is good, especially in Pennsylva-
MIA, where nine -tenths Of the counties
make favorable returns. Three-fourths of
the counties of the Ohio Valley report an
average or favorable condition. Missouri
aud Kansas make even better report.
In California it is estimated that the crop
will be forty millions of bushels.
Anote from Trappe, Talbot county, Nd,
states that Ernest Giles, colored boy
about eighteen years Of age, was arrested
and committed to jail on Sunday for an
attempt to commit an outrage upon the
person Of Miss Bartlett, young white
girl about sixteen years Of age. Miss
Bartlett, residing with her parents, about
two miles from Trappe, started to Sunday
school, which is held in the church about
one and a.half miles from the residence Of
her parents, and when about half way to
the church was met by the boy Ernest,
when he attacked her. The girl resisted
SO stoutly that he was defeated in the
accomplishments of his purpose.
1t appears that the steamer Greece her.
self had narrow escape from destruction,
after rescuing the passengers from the
Europe, Before the vessels parted com.
pany an attempt was made to pass haw-
ser from the Greece by means of a rocket
and line, to bring the Europe head to the
sea. The Greece reversed her engine to
get near the other ship; the passengers
crowded aft to look on. Suddenly the
hawser parted, and the Europe surgcd
ahead under the sail which had been made
on her. A cry Of horror rose, as the i'm
mediate destruction Of the Greece seemed
inevitable. Her engines were started
ahead, and she was moving when the bow
of tho Europe crashed into the stern Of the
Greece, tearing off plates and letting the
sea into the cabin. Fortunately the steer
ing gear and screw escaped, though mar,
rowly.
A riot occurred at Louisville on Monday
growing out of the celebration Of the ami.
vcrsary of the passage of the Fifteenth
Amendment Some difficulty about the
arrangement caused the better portion Of
the colored people to withdraw from the
celebration. In the afternoon, however
about one hundred colored men paraded
through the streets. One Of them left the