The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-07-10
News of the Week.


.d Georgia will be unusually large this
year. =. o.,a :,
Roston Base Ball Club earned Sl7, 900 as
gate money
stradiyarius violin, made in 1715,
has lust changed hands in London, the
consideration being $4,000.
Thomas J. Clark, Of Baltimore, Nd,
has been expelled FROM the Courts as an
attorney for breach ofeonddence.
During the past year there we're received
n, New York, 1,9O2,97s eheeses, and of
this vast number ,7Ol 1923 were exported.
During the past year one million dol
lars worth of coral was fished up out of
the depths Of the Mediterranean by the
coral gathercrs of Naples
A despatch from Professor Jenney, the
Government Geologist in the Black Hills,
reports that he has not found enough gold
to warrant extended mining operations.
269 deaths in Baltimore, Md, are re-
ported for the week ending on Saturday
last, being Sc more than the week previous
% deaths were from cholera infantum
l67 we're children under 5 years of age.
The Patrons Of Husbandry of America
and England are endeavoring to form
coalition with capital of s25, 200, 900 for
an international exchange of commodities
jacques dc Lakes, now in Paris, claims
1 that he was born in 1920, and that he is
consequently two hundred and twenty-five
years old All people do not believe him,
however
Mrs Boomer, the originator Of the
costume which bears her name, resides in
Council Bluffs, Iowa, where she has taken
Of late quite prominent part in the temper
ance movement.
Bobert Dale Owen, the well-known spr-
itualist, who has been for some time at
water-cure establishment at Danwille,
Western New York, has been taken to his
home in Indiana, insane.
n At Middletown, Del, an immense peach
refrigerator is to be built, capable Of hold.
u ing 200 900 baskets Of fruit, which the
protector guarantees to keep by peculiar
freezing process for six months. -
General Horace Capron arrived 10 Wash
ington Sunday night from Toxic, Japan.
He was formerly Commissioner of Agri-
culture, and subsequently filed similar
position under the japanese Government.
In his recent report, Professor Riley,
4 State Entomologist, estimates the damages
TO the State Of Missouri, from the ravages
of the chinch-bug in 1874, in the staple
crops Of corn, wheat and oats, at $40 000,-
900.
At Fourth OF July celebration in the
Court House ut Vicksburg, by the colored
people, a difficulty occurred which resulted
in the fatal wounding of one white and
three colored persons, besides several
Others less seriously. Jtt
Hon. Thomas B. Florence, formerly
member Of Congress from Philadelphia,
and afterwards editor aud publisher Of the
9 Constitutional Union and more recently
proprietor of the Washington Sunday ca
sette, died in Washington Sunday.
The first celebration Of the Indepen-
dence Day by American Indians took place
Sunday at Atoka, Indian Territory, about
three thousand Indians participating.
Governor Allen White, Choctaw, was
. President of the day and made speech
welcoming the people.
The final adjustment of the difficulties
between the Baltimore and Ohio and
h Pennsylvania Railway Companies was
reached on Saturday The Baltimore and
Ohio Company runs its trains over the
lines of the Pennsylvania Company as
before the Inauguration of the war, passcn-
ger fares to and from the West are adyan-
ced, as also freight rates.
Mr.. Keely, the dscoverer of the new
motor, is about to demonstrate the entire
practicability Of his discovery in its appli.
cition to a railruad train between Camden
and jersey City. Any expression of judy
a ment, either for or against, until We have
this practical demonstration, must be pre-
mature The public can afford to wait till
Mr. Keely submits his ease to actual ex-
pertinent. tatatis
Captain Lindell aud chief mate Dean,
pf the bark Union, which was lost by strik-
ing rock in Puget Sound, on the 7th Of
May, were arrested in San Francisco on
Friday, on the charge Of having wilfully
#recked the vessel The mate made a
confession stating that the captain propos-
led plans for destroying the vessel, which
were deliberately carried out, but the
captain denies this. The vessel, which
was worth $4,000, was insured for 81 900
A novel sort of civil rights case has
arisen in Washington. Henry Smith, the
eolored keeper Of lodging house, has
been sued by white man "for election on
recount Of color, contrary to the Fifteenth
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States ltappears that in Smiths
absence his mother rented a room to the
white man, aud that when Smith returned
be shut the doors upon the new tenant
with the ayowal that he would accommo-
Pate no white person. A warrant has
been issued for the landlords arrest.
Since 1776 the population ofthis country
has increased from 100000 to 10000
poo; the Baptists have increased from
b 900 to l,750,000; or in other words,
while the population now is only ten times
as great as it was then, the number Of
Baptists is seventy times as great. Their
growth in wealth, infence and social
position, in the number of substantial and
Elegant houses Of worship, schools, colleges
nd theological seminaries in an educated
plinistry, the employment of the religious
press, in missionary zeal and liberality, has
been almost equally as great.
The United States tDistric; Court at
Fort Smith, Arkansas, before which all
he criminal cases in the In 1ian Territory
pre- brought, has just disposed of no fewer
han twenty-seven murder cases. Eight
pf the accused werc convicted Of murder
b the first degree. One Of them, negro,
vus killed while attempting to escape the
pliers, including two youths Of II aud 10
fears Of age, will be all hanged together
on the 3D. Of September next. Crime is
ery prevalent in the Indian Territory,