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

ges until the LIST of january
MFR. c. Irwin, of York, has lot of apple
butter which was made by his mother AZ
years ago.
Manufacturing interests in New Eng
land are suffering from the partial failure
of water power
A safe containing $4,000 was stolen
from the American Express Office at Gin
cipnati on Sunday.
There is a colony Of Poles near Rolisg
Prairie, Indiana. They live in log cabins,
and speak but little English.
A California man has raised sixty tons
of cabbages on three acres of land, and
got 81 900 in gold for the crop.
The newly discovered lead deposits in
Crittenden county, KY promise to turn
out the richest in the United States.
Concord, n II. is sending cargoes Of
granite to Philadelphia for the construc-
ton Of the centennial exposition buildings.
The fires in the Dismal Swamp which
began about month since, are still burn.
ing iercely, and much valuable timber has
been destroyed
Mrs. Byram, Of Abingdon, ILL., is
cattle farmer, and her premiums ut the
agricultural fairs this fall number l22 and
amount to 81, l50.
The people living on the southwestern
frontier Of Texas are suffering from two
very serious plaques, the smallpox and
Mexican cattle.thieyps
1t is reported from Texas that the CON
tinued fine weather last month added
10000 bales worth s3,000,OO0, to the
cotton crop of that State.
Mr.. Henry G. Smith of Chicago, Treas
uror of Bishop Cheney's church, has
failed, owing DR.. Cheney, the church, and
individual parishioners $4,000.
The Chicago extension of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad having been completed.
trains began to run regularly between
Baltimore and Chicago on Monday.
The eastern end of Cuba has been
swept by tremendous storms, A great
amount of damage to property has been
caused, and some lives have been lost.
1t was recently announced that Thomas
Palnes grave, at New Rochelle, had been
obliterated, but Paine's body was removed
to England BY Goblet many years ago.
A Gettysburg paper says there is
considerable amount of sickness in and
around our usually healthy place, consist
ing most % Fe'erSi heu'uo''ia anu oo'us
deorgia expects to import So,oOo,ooo
worth OF bacon, Hour and corn this year,
TO supply her population rms amountis
sl6,O0o,0OO less than 1t was two years
ago
Oystermen are making nice thing OF
1t in the bay. Some OF them have made
as hlgh us siz per DAY since the com
menccment Of the season. Others make 81
without much trouble
The steamer Empire, overloaded with
sugar and molnsses, sunk at her wharf in
New orleans on tuesday morning some
ilitcen or twenty lives We're lost, including
four children OF the Captain.
A colony Of 2O00 Nennontes from
Russia have purchased a tract OF loO,Ooo
acres OF land lying between the Cotton,
wood and Little Arkansas rivers, and
intend shortly settling upon it.
The Hon. Jesse D. Bright, formerly
United States Senator from the State of
Indiana, and at one time President pro tenn.
OF the United States Senate, has become
permanent citizen OF Baltimore
Western Pennsylvania coke is being
freely used at the new Iron Furnace at
Catoctin works in lieu of anthracite coal.
1t makes No. iron, and the new Fur
mace is turning out Iron beds handsomely
Bishop Cummius of the Reformed
Episcopal Church, it is said, will soon
take up his residence in Baltimore. The
Bishop was formerly pastor of the old st.
Peters protestant Episeopal) Church in
that city.
Jerome Bonaparte, the second son Of the
deceased nephew Of the great Napoleon,
has been recently admitted to the bar at
Baltimore, and his first plea was pronoun-
ced an admirable effort, full of promise of
future distinction.
Twelve States have adopted compulsory
education laws New Hampshire, Yer
mont, Massachusetts,, Kentucky, Rhode
Island, New Jersey, Michigan, Kansas,
Texas, Nevada, California, and from LIST Of
January, 1875, New York.
The v,tsrs of Drn;d Lake n tho PARK
Baltimore, having been turned of last
Saturday, crowds of energetic lads wadcd
in and secured baskets Of fishes. Some
of the fnny specimens were two feet in
length, and mainly bass and gold fish.
The brush on the Blue Ridge and
North Mountains in Virginia is on fire,
and the smoke rising thercfrom has formed
a denso colnmn ohont twen,v. Ave miles
wide and as high as the eye can reach,
which floats and drifts over the surround
ing county.
1t is reported that twenty barrels. en-.
tered ms asalt meat and Australian beef
wore so;zod a, por,.a,on,h En,Jand ~,