The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-03-13
News of the Week.

In New YORK, lately, SIX children out OF
family Of eight died of diptheria within
Thirty days.
The gold exported from Australia and
New Zealand last year was worth about
$4,000, 900.
Water pipes six inches in diameter, aud
laid FIVE feet under the surface, have been
frozen in Boston.
A citizen of Utica, n Y, has been
three times married to, and twice divorced
from the same woman.
1t only cost Lewis Pollitt, residing near
Salisbury, sl0j to shoot twenty one par.
tridges few days since.
In tweuty.sevcu counties in Tennessee
l1,469 sheep are recorded to have been
killed by dogs the past year.
All the English steamers between New
York and Liverpool, advanced their steer
age IS per head on Monday last.
jennie, one of the Baltimore quartettc
of babies, died on Monday last, of catarrh;
two of the others, Sarah and Mary are
also sick Mary died on Thursday last.
lhe recently uiscoNereu sHNer mlnc AT
Newburypor'' Mass mas been opened for
ty-hye feet below ground and a rich VEIN
of ore penetrated.
Henry Marley, "the English Evangelist, -
preached at the HIppodrome, IN New
York, Sunday evening, to an audience OF
about 10000 people.
Mrs. Mary Smith, white, died in Balti
more, Md, on the "a instant, aged III
years Susan Carr, colored, died in the
same city, on the 9th instant, aged lO5
years
There have been more deaths in New
York city from pneumonia the past winter
than has taken place for nine years past.
In January there were ", aud in Febru-
airy lOI,
Mrs. Evans, Of Seymour Connecticut,
on Monday cut the threats of her two
small children, and then cut her own
throat She Is expected to die, and the
children to recover. She was insane
Governor Hendricks called an extra SEES
sion of the Indiana Legislature, to com
mence on Monday, because, at the regular
session just closed, several important meas,
urcs, including the general appropriation
bill, failed to pass.
Tho transient boarders accommodated
at the Aims house Of Adams county, Pa,
during the month of January, numbered
524, including I females and during Feb
ruary 594, including females; in all, for
two months, LIS
III. Crane. tax Collector of Internal
Revenue in the Third District of Vermont,
was on Friday convicted of embezlement
aud making false entries, and sentenced
to eighteen months imprisonment, with u
fine Of two thousand dollars.
desnoteb from st. Holm. N II saws
that tho bodies Of more than fo,tv persons
who have died there this winter have bpcn
,cmnorarily inferred in the snow which
lies so deep in the cemeteries as to prevent
the opening of graves.
The Steamer Civ of yicksbnrg which
left St. Iouis. on Saturday. for Vieksburr
with nearly zoo tons of freipbt was sn,L
bv snog AZ Shin Island ON sunday nigb,
The CARGO in bcr hold will Ina dnma@cd
Int II 4 eyncetcd that tho ycsscl which i
valued at $40, 900 will soon be raised
Tho co,o,nor % ,,t.n..s an Nd,
issued , PROCLAMATION ,nno;n,ipg ThnrsIny
the 26tb inst as a dar of t6apksgiv;ng
"for tho many blcssing: which b,ve beoe
sbnwored on the Stetc dnr;ng tho n,s,
tvelye months and esnecioly The ,don.
ton of The Poland rcport Ly tho II 1
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sons'unS iau"I , s 1n uon'ay az Ihe sGr,
loA navy ysru cue Is Que Oh Tue eish,
pasai yeSs gu a ,t.a oy ,he ACT OF
reo'ua'y ~ VI, 80 que VII, DC parS
r'gses' anu wiz nave a e oaek aellhs com
P1uhu screw vus' sun ol ovo morse power
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fo noSnJsr r;fo suns "' guy
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nv "oououry' " o., gu Menuay ai1er'
moon, q young ,auy' ha'neu urscon, VINO
was returning from 'h's Guy, was a'tnSsed
upou' us', ''i"e rom 'ne uePo' wi'n'i
shoi, uis,ane. i,ou' her nohe' py .nreS
,ousns' WIN s'eu ne, :" Tree anu roooeu
her =, n'vs' VI ner va,a"Oles' one released
Terso'i py cutting .he rope win KNIFE
,hrec ramps, VINO aPp',eu 10, lodgings al
'ne Ja'l, wele lscosnlleu as hayins been
seen mar w plaee Wn1fe ,'ie ROBBERY oc'
ui1u, anu na.e o9en Ae'u '"r 'uen''nca-
"oi " 'ne ,ou"s '.uy
At Johnstown, ~ T., on Saturday
%ornlng' smoke was seen issul1g from the
panaing mouse q iiayes vans ana inc
building was entered Inc charred re-
mains o. q ou'cher, named Edward iost