The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-08-07

Peru has hit upon the fertile expedicnt
Of paying of her last loan in guano.
Ninety five million feet Of lumber have
been RATED on the Penobseot river this
season.
Tramps in Maine are refusing SO day
to assist in haying, and will not work at
any price.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey sailed from
Liverpool Wednesday for New York OIL
the steamship Spain.
The Rev. Joseph Williams, a negro
preacher at franklin, Tenn, is on trial for
kissing Sister Jordan. Raise his salary
Give him 100000,
New York has just received the first lot
of new sweet potatoes this season, They
arrived from North Carolina, and sold at
s. barrel
Alabama farmers talk of making the
best crops this year that they will have
had since 1860. Corn promises an unu-
sual yield and cotton is excellent
The shipping aud commission house of
Thomas r. Matthews Sons, at Baltimore,
suspended on Monday. The liabilities are
stated at from $4,000 to $4,000.
Gen. Longstroot is at work on an ac-
count of his part in the battle of Gettys.
burg. He believes that history will do
him injustice it he does not defend himself.
About 100000 gallons or over 81, 0OO,-
900 worth of ice cream is manufactured
annually in Boston. Leading hotels and
saloons there consume on an average forty
two gallons daily.
There have been two deaths but no new
cases of yellow fever at Fort Barraucas
since Mondays report. DIR. Sternberg,
who is i'll Of the disease, will probably re-
cover. No new case Of the fever is repor
ted at Fort Pickens
There are fifteen thousand factory oper-
atives idle at Fall River, Mass, they
having decided to take month vacation
rather than submit to a reduction of wages.
Many of the storekeepers have given notice
that If the operatives can afford to take a
vacation they can afford to pay cash for
their goods.
Three secret service detectives made a
descent upon den of eounterfeiters, at
Saint Paul, Minnesota, Sunday morning,
about one o'clock They captured u SO
plate two $40 plates and $50 plate;
also, $50, 900 in counterfeit money, on the
Paducah National Bank, of Kentucky.
Two counterteiters, named Woolsey and
Prizer, with the wife of Woolsey, were
arrested.
At Valley Stream, l.. l., ON Saturday
afternoon, John Quig, being drunk, at.
tempted to drive wagon containing two
children, aged respectively Z and 10 years,
across Hog Island inlet The current
being deep and strong, the bottom floated
out of the wagon, and Quig aud the
youngest child were drowned. The other
child was saved by Captain Richard Gibson.
The Dubuque Telegraph says A sin
gular incident occurred at an Eagle Point
saloon recently. The cage of pet
parrot hung in the room, and the occupy
ing bird is rather accomplished in language,
mimicry and mischief. Two strange dogs
happened at the same time to come in.
Poll urged them on each other by so ma
tural an imitation of the human sic EN-,
sic en-, that the two animals forthwith
fell to fighting.
The board of inquiry in the case Of
Bishop Nottingham of the Protestant
Episcopal Church Of Maryland, concluded
its labors Monday night, refusing to bring
the bishop to trial by vote Of to 1.
The board adopted resolution censuring
Revs. Richie and Perry, of Mt. Calvary
Church, who had used prayers for the dead.
The charge against the bishop was for not
bringing the clergymen to trial on presen.
tations for these alleged practices