The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-01-09
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minstrel, died at Providence, Il. l. Friday
night
A bronze statue Of Robert Burns i
shortly to be erected in Central Park, New
York.
A large aquarium is 10 be established
in connection with the Philadelphia Zoo
logical Garden. ,.s
The public debt statement for January
LIST shows that the debt increased 1869,
967 during December,
Tho trial Of the civil suit of Tiltor
against Beecher began in the Brooklyn
City Court on Monday
Vermont thinks that It is evoluting a
volcano, one Of its mountains having ac-
quired the habit Of smoking
Mrs. Asa Hutchinson, Of the well.known
Hutchinson Family" Of singers, died last
week Of apoplcxy, at Rushford, Wis.
Broom corn has advanced in Philadel.
phia, and the manufacturers thirteen in
number, have put up their prices fifty
cents per dozen
The Kentucky Patrons are debating
the feasibility of doing their own banking,
as well as manufacturing their own agri-
cultural implements.
The Hanover Spectator says one hun
bred aud sixty.fiye tramps were furnished
with lodging during the month of Decem.
Der at the lookup in hat.borough.
The not debt of the CITY of New York.
according to the Comptrollers statement,
is sll5, lS7,9 $50. There is an additional
floating debt of from ten to twenty millions.
Mayor Cobb states the debt of the city
Of Boston, funded and unfuuded, at S44,-
7l9,l23, an increase Of 81 ,252, 8lS on the
total Of last year. The net debt of the
city is S29, O57 PIG
Rumors of tho resignation of Treasurer
Spinner and other Treasury officials have
been circulating in Washington, but the
gentlemen concerned deny that there is
any truth in the reports.
The new Academy Of Music in Balti-
more, has just been completed, and was
opened on Tuesday evening last by grand
entertainment, to which the President aud
his Cabinet were invited,
William Dripps, Of Coatsyille, Chester
county, Pa. is a successful trout breeder,
and has now on hand 1870, 900 trout eggs,
and humorous specimens of the full grown
fish, some of them very large,
A Chicago couple, after living In matri-
monial harmony for thirty-two years, were
divorced. After a two months trial they
decided that single blcssedncss was myth,
and were recently married again.
A delegation of "hcad men" from the
civilized tribes in the Indian Territory
called upon the Secretary of the Interior
Monday morning to oppose the proposition
for Territorial Government for the In
dams.
In Quebec recently as bridal party
were leaving the French cathedral heavy
snow slide from the roof fixed them all
securely in the sleigh aud the vehicle had
to be turned over in order to effect their
release.
The monopoly that has for some years
maintained the high price Of anthracite
coal is at last likely to come to an end
An early reduction Of one dollar ton i
probable, followed by further reduction
in March
AT Cleveland, Ohio, on Friday, twenty
seven cock-Rghtcrs were arrested by an
agent Of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty TO Animals The roof of their
den had to be knocked off before the police
could capture them.
An entertainment was recently given by
cOlored citizens iu Rredericksburg. Va.
The body Of the hall in which il was given
was appropriated to colored folks, and the
gallery set apart for white people, with
half price admission.
Ia North Carolina, recently, two negro
women placed distractions, in the shape
Of heavy logs, upon a railroad track.
When questioned as TO their motives for
the act, they naively replied that they
wanted to kill some ladies on the train, SO
they might get their bonncts.
Edward 7. Williams, who, with J. k
Moore, was concerned in the robbery of
Treasury certificates from the Internal
Revenue Office in Washington last sum. |
mer, and made his escape in PHILADELPHIA.
has been seut to Washington. Moore was
caught again in Washington las. week.
The number of immigrants who arrived
at New York in 1874 was 1903 com. |
pared with 266,8l8 during 1873. There
Is thus falling eff of nearly onc-hslf in
the immigration, which shows the effect
upon the other side Of the Atlantic of the
intelligence from this country Of the do. |
preston IN trade and the inability 10 pro. |
cure work. rs !
Mail adyieos from Cuba give particulars
Of the loss Of the steamer Thomas Brooks |
on the morning ofthc Sd ,ult. The vessel
struck rock, about fifteen miles from
Guantanamo, and, after striking backed !
Of and sank in about ten minutes, in deem
water. Thirty-fve persons went down IA
her, and the remainder, about the same
number, escaped TO the shore.
The storm of Saturday interferred with
The entertainment Of King Kalakaua AZ
Boston, as it kept him in his apartments !
1t the Revere House. In the afternoon
Governor Talbot and Mayor Cobb Maid
heir respects to his Hawaiian Majesty, and
n the evening she dlned privately with
he Mayor and few gentlemen whose
interests have been identified with tho
Sandwich islands, sas.a p.gIelj