The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-26
News of the Week.

A Mexican millionaire mus efected colOs'
sal statue Of Christopher Columbus in Paris.
Tbe liabilities Of 4. ID. Jewett & Co. whose
f.;lnre Is announced at st. John, N, b., are
nearly S6,OOO,OOO.
boa constructor, now ON It's way to the
Garden of Plants, at Hayre, France, measures
twenty -four feet in length.
Georgia peaches are beginning to make
their appearance in the Northern markets
They retail at about $40 crate.
Dnrine the past two years over 100000
worth al English pointer and setter dogs have
been imported into this country.
H II is reported that Mrs. +. ID. L. n. South.
worth is now worth about $3.50 200. every
dollar of which she earned with her pen.
The municipal authorities of Paris propose
No. organize liie-saying brigade of Newfound-
land dogs, to be placed along the banks of
The Seine.
Information has been received in Washing
hon that more than 81 900, 200 worth of cattle
have been stolen from Texas by the Mexican
raiders since the LIST Of January.
Five sewing machine, book, patent right,
Insurance and lightningro rod agents poured into
leighton, Iowa. last week, and the citizens
photographed TO Washington for troops.
1886, 600 quarts of strawberries had been
khipped over the Delaware Railroad up TO
Saturday last, and realized TO the shippers
fhe net sum Of SAL, $50.
Owing to the prevalence of the potato bug
In this country, the importation Of vegetables
INTO Portugal from the United States and
canada has been prohibited by royal decree.
A new plague, consisting Of millions OF
toads, has appeared near Lexington, in La
lhyette county, No., and the farmers, almost
hfiicted by the grasshoppers, are most in
Despair.
At baby show held at Fredericksburg, Dor
Chester county, Nd, last week, John N. Col.
lison, ESQ.,, received the first premium, SO,
For twins, and VIM. Stewart, Esq, S., for
pest single babe.
The old Indian reservation Of lOO,0 900 acres
of swamp lands in Wisconsin. the title TO
which has long been in dispute between the
State and the United States, has Just been
awarded to the former.
Colonel John s. Mosby, of Virginia. has
Received an invitation from committee of
Boston gentlemen to deliver one of a series
b addresses in fremont Temple in that city,
Ind will probably accept.
W England having declined to enter into an
alance with Russia unless the Central Asian
States were placed under protection of inter
bal law, Russia will not Withdraw from the
\ alliance of the three Emperors.
Vim. Thompson, indicted for n felonious
assault on Dora Link, child not IL years
Bid, near Halls Springs, Baltimore county,
Nd, last November, was convicted in the
Baltimore City Criminal Court on Tuesday
last.
The rates on western bound freights were
d,ancaI ~ nalttu,nra On Mnuday he tho RAJ.
limoe and Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad
Companies, the advance ranging from @ to so
Der cent above the "cut' rates prevailing
during the late contest
A citizen Of Portland, Maine, has n valuable
felic in the shape of ring once worn by the
wife Of President Madison. II is Of very
heavy gold. with blood stone, under which
81 little braid of hair from the heads of
Washington and Jackson.
The new system Of prepayment of postage
Dn newspapers by means OF stamps, il is sta.
he'd is bringing the post office very satisfac-
tory revenue. The postage collected on this
Mass Of matter during the first quarter of the
present year amounted to $50, 1853.
l Thomas H. Smith, colored, died in Balti-
more on Tuesday morning last, from the
Meets of wounds produced by his employer,
Nm. Meeter, who shot him on Saturday last,
without any provocation. Meeter was ARES
ted and lodged in Jail, bail being properly
infused.
Advices have been received at Washington
bat the Asiatic cholera had made its appear.
NICE on board the United States steamer
Saco, Of the Asiatic squadron, four out of
I've cases having proved fatal, 1t was thought
However, that the progress of the disease had
been arrested.
Contrary TO all the teachings of Sunday
<chool literature, Pennsy wanna lad has fallen
&pon prosperity by going fishing on Sunday.
He didn't catch any fish, but saved wealthy
Gentleman from drowning, and has had a
900 bank account started for him by the
rateiul survivor.
Holders Of the first mortgage bonds of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, due the LIST of
July, are notified that the remainder of the
lpan-$ 1888, 25O-will be paid at any date in
adyance of maturity, with interest to date of
payment, on presentation at the Treasurer $
fiice in Baltimore.
W A bridge is to be built over the Firth of
Forth, in Scotland, the height of which will
he 100 feet, and the number Of spans nearly
ID0. The largest span in the centre is to be
200 feet, or nearly one-third Of mile in
width, and the smaller spans 100 feet. IL will
ADht aDout SlU,uOUiUUO.
& The dependence Of foreign countries upon
he United States for their breadstuffs supply
n shown by statement from the Agricultn.
nj Department which gives the aggregate
hreadstuifs expectation in the last forty-nine
years at 81, 742, 90S,059. In 1874 the expor
thfion was Sl61 ,225, 1884, an amount very much
larger than that of any previous year.
Owing to the depression Of trade in Canada
Dsll -
viii run its factory on half time only. 1t en-
ploys 400 women and 200 men. The Grand
Trunk car construction shops are closed, and
viii remain so until the 18th of July. This
puts several hundred men out of employment
Adams tobacco factory in Montreal has been
closed since the end of March.
Captain Joseph Green was fatally stabbed,
AZ Newark, New Jersey, on Tuesday night,
BY woman named Murray. He had been
drinking with her husband, and she asked the
litter TO come home, and "leave the drunken
IQafer' when Green retorted, calling her vile
names. She then stabbed Green with pair
Of scissors, wounding him so badly, that he
lied in quarter Of an hour. Mrs. Murray
zarrendered herselfto the authorities Wednes-
Jay morning. s
The long-pending case of Paul Schnppe vs..
he executors of Miss Maria Stinnecke was
decided on Saturday in the Orphans Court Of
baltimore City. The opinion, in brief, is
hat Scheppe and Miss Stinnecke we're not
married; that his allegations that they were
married are false; that he has no chin to her
property, and that Messrs. VIM. A. Stewart
md John X. Helso, Jr. are her legal execu-
tors. Schnppe is now in the Penitentiary at
billet, Illinois.
The long-looked-for resumption Of work at
he mines of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre
Goal Companies collieries, at Sugar Notch,
Xanamie, Hanover, Nanticoke, Empire, Di.
4mond, Plymouth, Hollenbrck and others,
<ook place Monday morning at reduction of
<on per cent. from the prices formerly paid.
be six months suspension in the mining re-
hon is now ended. The men Of the Riverside
Eoal Company and individual operators also
tommenced work Monday morning.
The port of London has every day on its
*Aters 1000 ships and 1000 sailors. Upward
"a 100 persons are added 10 the population
1aiy, or 10000 yearly, birth taking place
very five minutes and a death every eight
Minutes. On an average 2S miles Of streets
10 opened, and 5000 new houses built every
Year. In its postal districts there are a yearly
/Iitvarv If o.lA f00 mo of latforx I'm tho