The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-04-03
News of the Week.

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ginia City, Nevada.
Transmission of money by post in Russia
Is expressly forbidden, and the money is
liable to coniiscation.
In the Senate Of Ohio, on Saturday, the
House bill providing for compulsory edu.
cation was defeated by six votes.
On Sunday the Dist ult., Sarah, the
third of the Hahn quartet of babies died.
There is but one now remaining alive.
The first coach or private carriage i'm
ported into America was in 1870, by
Lindley Murray, the father of the eminent
grammarian.
The committee of Associated Coal
Companies at New York have agreed on
an advance of 20 cents per ton for the
month Of April.
General Augur, on Saturday morning,
assumed command of the Department Of
the Gulf, relieving General Emory, who
left New Orleans on Saturday evening, for
Washington.
A return 10 the old method Of redeeming
mutiIated United States currency, by which
deduction is made proportional to the
part Of the note that is missing was made
at the beginning Of this month.
At West Point, Mississippi, on Thurs
day last, Louis A. Middleton, editor of
the Times, was shot dead by d. L. Love,
editor of the Citizen, because he had pub
lished ''an offensive article" and refused
retraction. The murderer escaped
Fourteen of the finest sugar plantations
in the neighborhood of Sagua LA Grandc,
Cuba, have been destroyed by incendiaries.
The damage to machinery and buildings
is estimated at not less than $500, 900, and
the crop destroyed is estimated at $1,000
tons of sugar.
A cable dispatch from Lisbon notifies
the Portuguese Minister at Washington
that his Government has accepted the in.
ytation to participate in the Centennial
Exhibition, aud instructs him to arrange
for space to be occupied by Portugal in
the exhibition buildings
A case just settled by compromise, in
Cecil county, has been in the Courts for
AZ years. The original debt was $50,
which TIE party was ready to pay, but
could find no one to whom he could legally
pay it, Interest and cost has swelled the
sum to $500, which was compromised
few days since, by the payment of $780,
A despatch from Pottsville says that at
Locust Gap, during Friday night, the
striking laborers and miners dumped q
number of cars loaded with coal for ship.
ment, and burned the depot and telegraph
Office of the Reading Railroad Company.
Special police from Philadelphia aud Read
ing have gone to Mahanoy Plane to pro
tect properly and assist, il necessary, in
operating the road.
In the case of W. G.. Greaves and Dr.
L. b. SPARTAN, on trial at Broekvile
Ontario, for murder, in causing the death
of Miss Sophia L. Burnham, by perform.
ing an abortion, the jury on Tuesday re-
turned verdict of guilty, and the prisoners
were sentenced to be hanged on the 23d
of June Greaves was the girls seducer,
and accompanied Dr. SPARTAN when the
abortion was performed.
Eighty convicts, working in the foundry
of the State prison at Jacksonville, Ind.
attempted to escape Oh the 10Th ultimo
They suddenly quilted work, overpowered,
tied and blindfolded their guards, and
began TO break their way out They had
nearly cut hole through the outer wall,
when a general alarm was given, and they
were forced back by the outer guards
The leaders were promptly punished and
quiet was restored.
Both branches Of the Susquehanna had
risen on Sunday and food was apprshen-
ded at Lock Haven, Williamsport, and
Wilkesbarre. Above Lock Haven, on the
West Branch, the valley was inundated,
several small bridges having been carried
of, and it was reported that several per.
sons had been drowned Information on
Thursday from Port Deposit aud all other
threatened points on the Susquehanna,
represent that the ice gorge passed off
without inHicting any further damage.
Similar results are reported from the Del
aware
General Spinner on Monday sent to the
President his resignation as Treasurer of
the United States, to take effect ON the LIST
Of July He will be succeeded by Hon.
John c. New, Cashier of the First Nation
al Bank Of Indianapolis, to whom the po-
sition was offered by the President some
time since, in the event Of Spinner's resig
nation. General Spinner was appointed
U. s. Treasurer by President Lincoln, at
the instance Of Mr.. Chase, just before the
latter became Secretary of the Treasury,
and he has held the Office fourteen years
He had previously served six years as a
member Of the House of Representatives
from the ST. Lawrence District of New
York. General Spinner had for some
time contemplated a retirement from the
cares of Office.
The Baltimore papers of Monday give
the particulars of the rescue of Is surviv-
ors Of party Of 81 seamen, who left St.
Mary's N. r., on March I'd, to board n
brig, which was ice bound two miles from
shore. In trying to return, they found
that the ice had separated from the shore,
and they were aaoat upon it. Seven Of
the party were frozen to death on cold
night Succeeding the accident. Nine 9TH
.ers got on separate piece of ice, hoping
II would float them ashore, but it grounded,
and in three days six Of the nine persisted
from exposure. On. the 9th, the three
survivors were rescued by schooner. The
eighteen remaining on the larger ice field
regained the ice-bound brig, where they
found some molasses, which served them
as food. The Brig drifted in sight Of
land for week, and il was ten days before
Il the survivors were picked up. Ten of the
castaways have arrived at Baltimore, in
the steamer Nurnberg, and will be sent to
Newfoundland by the British Consul.
A meeting of citizens Of Syracuse, n.
& Y. to express approval of Governor Til
den's message on the Canal frauds, was
held on Saturday evening. IL was largely
attended, and the list Of Vice Presidents
and Secretaries was taken from both
political parties Ex- Mayor Graves pre-